Travels in Arabia Deserta Selected Passages

Long famous among scholars and students of Arab history and culture, readers of travel and adventure books, and lovers of English literature, Charles M. Doughty's Travels in Arabia Deserta is a formidable work of over 1,400 pages, a daunting length for many readers. This excellent selection of the finest passages of the great work, less than a quarter of that length, is ideally suited to a wide audience of general readers. Written after the author had spent two years wandering among the Bedouin nomads, the remarkable book describes Doughty's attempt to reach Mecca, his endurance of extraordinary hardships, and his first-hand observations of Arab life and culture in the 1870s. The work is as revered for the exceptional power and beauty of its prose as it is for its panoramic view of a fascinating and mysterious land. Unabridged republication of Passages from Arabia Deserta, published by Horace Liveright, Inc., New York, 1931.Doughty, Charles Montagu is the author of 'Travels in Arabia Deserta Selected Passages', published 2003 under ISBN 9780486431581 and ISBN 0486431584.