Arabian Sands

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  • Author: Wilfred Thesiger
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • Catalogue: 159087
  • Size: 13x20cm
Arabian Sands chronicles Wilfred Thesiger’s five years of exploration in the waterless desert ‘Empty Quarter’ of Arabia, amongst the Bedu people. Thesiger’s 1945 visit was the first by a European to the region, and just before he left the process that would change it forever was beginning - the discovery of oil.

Travelling amongst the Bedu people, Thesiger experienced their everyday challenges of hunger and thirst, long marches beneath the blistering, relentless sun, the bitterly cold nights, and the constant danger of death if it was discovered he was a Christian ‘infidel’.

An introduction by Rory Stewart discusses Thesiger’s travels, the dangers he put himself in, his unconventional personality and his insights into the vanished culture of the Bedu people.

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