Travels in Arabia Deserta
Author | : Charles Montagu Doughty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Arabian Peninsula |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Charles Montagu Doughty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Arabian Peninsula |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles Montagu Doughty |
Publisher | : Cambridge [Eng.] : University Press |
Total Pages | : 706 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Arabian Peninsula |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stephen E. Tabachnick |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0820340030 |
Charles Montagu Doughty's Travels in Arabia Deserta (1888) is remarkable for its scientific evelations and brilliantly unique style—an artful combination of Arabic and English syntax and diction that rendered a foreign way of life and thought and depicted a distant landscape of stark, barren beauty. The ten original essays in this book examine many aspects of Arabia Deserta, including its Victorian characteristics and aesthetics; its blend of fact and fantasy; its portrayal of Arab society and of Doughty himself; and the accuracy of its geographical, geological, archaeological, historical, and ethnographical observations. Additionally, the book's introduction and two bibliographies probe Arabia Deserta's reception, unique position in the genre of travel literature, and bibliographical history. During the grueling twenty-one-month journey narrated in Arabia Deserta, Doughty endured periods of sickness and near-famine, a series of treacherous guides, attack by a mob, and virtual imprisonment by a corrupt Turkish commandant. Celebrating this epic of scholarship and survival, Explorations in Doughty's "Arabia Deserta" maps the contours of a work that T. E. Lawrence, who had followed Doughty's path to Arabia, called "a book not like other books, but something particular, a bible of its kind."
Author | : Alois Musil |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Arabian Peninsula |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles M. Doughty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 716 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Charles M. Doughty |
Publisher | : Ravenio Books |
Total Pages | : 833 |
Release | : 2014-03-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Charles Montagu Doughty (1843 – 1926) was an English poet and traveller, best remembered for his sprawling 1888 work, Travels in Arabia Deserta, which was highly praised by T.E. Lawrence in the 1920s.
Author | : John Winter Jones |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2017-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317013239 |
Translated from the Original Italian Edition of 1510, with a Preface, by John Winter Jones, Esq., F.S.A. And Edited, with Notes and an Introduction, by George Percy Badger. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1863.
Author | : Toby Craig Jones |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2011-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674059409 |
Oil and water, and the science and technology used to harness them, have long been at the heart of political authority in Saudi Arabia. Oil’s abundance, and the fantastic wealth it generated, has been a keystone in the political primacy of the kingdom’s ruling family. The other bedrock element was water, whose importance was measured by its dearth. Over much of the twentieth century, it was through efforts to control and manage oil and water that the modern state of Saudi Arabia emerged. The central government’s power over water, space, and people expanded steadily over time, enabled by increasing oil revenues. The operations of the Arabian American Oil Company proved critical to expansion and to achieving power over the environment. Political authority in Saudi Arabia took shape through global networks of oil, science, and expertise. And, where oil and water were central to the forging of Saudi authoritarianism, they were also instrumental in shaping politics on the ground. Nowhere was the impact more profound than in the oil-rich Eastern Province, where the politics of oil and water led to a yearning for national belonging and to calls for revolution. Saudi Arabia is traditionally viewed through the lenses of Islam, tribe, and the economics of oil. Desert Kingdom now provides an alternative history of environmental power and the making of the modern Saudi state. It demonstrates how vital the exploitation of nature and the roles of science and global experts were to the consolidation of political authority in the desert.
Author | : Charles Montagu Doughty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Arabian Peninsula |
ISBN | : 9780747503385 |
This is an illustrated edition of a 19th-century travelogue written by Charles Montagu Doughty, a geologist with fluent Arabic, who travelled alone for two years, almost penniless, through the Arabian peninsula. Admired by T.E.Lawrence, his account of Arab life is shrewd without being sentimental.
Author | : Charles Montagu Doughty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Arabian Peninsula |
ISBN | : |