Arabian Sands
Wilfred Thesiger • Longmans, Green & Co. • ISBN-13 978‑0141442075
Arabian Sands
Wilfred Thesiger • Longmans, Green & Co.
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ISBN-10: 0141442077 · ISBN-13: 978‑0141442075 · 1959 · 1st Edition
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Wilfred Thesiger’s seminal account chronicles his five years spent traversing the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula between 1945 and 1950. Through rigorous observation and deep immersion, he documents the vanishing nomadic lifestyle of the Bedu tribes, capturing a landscape and culture on the precipice of irrevocable modernization. The narrative serves as both a poignant elegy for a traditional way of life and a definitive record of mid-twentieth-century desert exploration.
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