Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2007
ISBN 10: 0141025492 ISBN 13: 9780141025490
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ISBN 10: 0141025492 ISBN 13: 9780141025490
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Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 2007
ISBN 10: 0141025492 ISBN 13: 9780141025490
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Restless, gripped by an overwhelming wish to make a name for himself in a world ever more hemmed in by progress and 'civilization', Thesiger (1910-2003) embarked on his amazing journeys across Saudi Arabia's Empty Quarter to test himself and to show what could still be done. The result was a monument both to his resilience and to the Bedu who guided him and who emerge as the book's real heroes. "Great Journeys" allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 2007
ISBN 10: 0141025492 ISBN 13: 9780141025490
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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Restless, gripped by an overwhelming wish to make a name for himself in a world ever more hemmed in by progress and 'civilization', Thesiger (1910-2003) embarked on his amazing journeys across Saudi Arabia's Empty Quarter to test himself and to show what could still be done. The result was a monument both to his resilience and to the Bedu who guided him and who emerge as the book's real heroes. "Great Journeys" allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2007
ISBN 10: 0141025492 ISBN 13: 9780141025490
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THESIGER, Wilfred. ARABIAN SANDS. London: Longman, 1960. 9" x 6." With 68 Photo Illustrations, 7 maps, Large map in pocket, 326pp. Original Cloth Hardcover, in Dust Wrapper. First Edition, Second impression, (first published in 1959), of a fascinating travel account in Arabia, Abu Dhabi & Oman across the Empty Quarter, which includes several maps of Arabia and a chapter on both Abu Dhabi and the Trucial Coast. Major Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger (1910-2003), also known as Mubarak bin London (Arabic for "the blessed one from London") was a British explorer and travel writer. During the Second World War, Thesigner fought in Abyssinia and in the Western Desert. All this was only a prelude to his great adventures which he so vividly describes in Arabian Sands. By dressing, eating, almost thinking like a native, Thesiger came as close to living the life of a Beduin Arab as a Westerner ever will. His descriptions of the fantastic privations they endure without complaint, of their strange customs, of their innate loyalty and generosity as well as their fierce fighting, from a magnificent picture of these little-known people and provide invaluable reference and source material. Arabian Sands is the story of a unique and remarkable adventure -one that no other man could have lived, one that can never happen again. Dust wrapper worn at edges with a small 1cm tear on top edge of verso, otherwise book in very good condition.
Verlag: Royal Geographical Society, London 1928, 1928
Anbieter: EQTNA, Leicester, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Two accounts in one issue, altogether 35 pages (27 on Thesiger's account). Plus photographic plates and a fold-out colour maps, measuring approximately 11 x 11 inches and a fold-out sketch map, measuring approximately 13 x 7.5 inches. Thesiger has an immense ability to describe very vividly the life and ways of the people of the desert, and his writings shine with his clear attachment to them. Accompanied by a spectacular detailed fold-out color map, illustrating Thesiger's journey through western and northern Rub al Khali. This is Thesiger's first-hand account and pre-dates his book, "Arabian Sands", published in 1959 by Longmans. Also included in this issue is an 8 page account by Philby, entitled "Two Notes from Central Arabia", accompanied by a fold-out sketch map of the Jabal Tuwaiq region of Arabia. Phibly provides an illuminating description of the pools of Aflaj and the Qariya ruin field, from his excursion in 1948 and his journey in 1918. Also included is a brief description of Phibly's map. Ships from U.A.E.