Arabian Sands - Wilfred Thesiger

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Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinaryjourney through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated atEton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidityof Western life—"the machines, the calling cards, the meticulouslyaligned streets." In the spirit of T. E. Lawrence, he set out toexplore the deserts of Arabia, traveling among peoples who hadnever seen a European and considered it their duty to killChristian infidels. His now-classic account is invaluable tounderstanding the modern Middle East.