Travels in Arabia Deserta: Selected Passages
Charles M. Doughty
320 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0486431584
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Language: English
Publish: October 16, 2003
This excellent selection 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.