THESIGER, Wilfred.
Arabian Sands.
New York: E.P. Dutton and Company , 1959.
$125.00
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"This is one of those books which makes a permanent difference to one’s view of the world": First Edition of Wilfred Thesiger's Arabian Sands
First American edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated, map on the rear pastedown. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Though educated at Eton and Oxford, Wilfred Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life-"the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets." In the spirit of T. E. Lawrence, he set out to explore the deserts of Arabia, traveling among peoples who had never seen a European and considered it their duty to kill Christian infidels. His now-classic account is invaluable to understanding the modern Middle East. "Following worthily in the tradition of Burton, Lawrence, Philby and Thomas, [Arabian Sands] is, very likely, the book about Arabia to end all books about Arabia" (The Daily Telegraph, London).
Arabian Sands.
$125.00
In Stock
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