Travels in Arabia Deserta
Author | : Charles Montagu Doughty |
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Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Arabian Peninsula |
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Author | : Charles Montagu Doughty |
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Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Arabian Peninsula |
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Author | : Charles Montagu Doughty |
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Total Pages | : 672 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Arabian Peninsula |
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Author | : Charles Montagu Doughty |
Publisher | : Cosimo, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 678 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1616405163 |
Travels in Arabia Deserta, originally published in 1888, is a two-volume set which describes English poet Charles Doughty's extensive travels through the Arabian deserts and the discoveries he made there. The work became well-regarded for its beautiful prose as well as its extensiveness, which made it a benchmark of ambitious travel writing in the early 20th century. Written in the style of the King James Bible, the text is extravagant and creative. In the 1920's, it was discovered by British Army Officer T.E. Lawrence, who spurred the book's republication, this time with an introduction from Lawrence. The book has been in and out of print since then, but the Cosimo edition is a rare 1921 reprint, and includes the Lawrence introduction. Volume I includes T.E. Lawrence's Introduction, as well as accounts of Doughty's treks to Mecca, Ammon and Moab, the Mountain of Edom, Arabia, the Passage of the Harra, Teyma, and more. He also describes nomad life in the desert and ancient stories, peoples, and myths connected with his travels. CHARLES MONTAGU DOUGHTY (1843-1926) was an English poet and writer born in Theberton Hall, Saxmundham, Suffolk. He attended King's College London and graduated from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1864. Among this author's works are an epic poem in six volumes titled The Dawn in Britain, published in 1906, and his well-known Travels in Arabia Deserta, for which he received much praise.
Author | : Charles Montagu Doughty |
Publisher | : Andesite Press |
Total Pages | : 714 |
Release | : 2017-08-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781376366778 |
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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 | : Charles Montagu Doughty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Arabian Peninsula |
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Author | : Charles Montagu Doughty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 706 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Arab countries |
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Author | : Bayard Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1892 |
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Author | : Charles Montagu Doughty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Arabian Peninsula |
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Author | : Charles M. Doughty |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 2008-05 |
Genre | : Arabian Peninsula |
ISBN | : 9780571243549 |
Wanderings in Arabia is an abridgement of Charles M. Doughty's masterwork, Travels in Arabia Deserta, which has been hailed as the finest travel account in the English language. It is the first book to be written, in any language, about wide tracts of the Arabian Penisula. Out of his remote and lonely wanderings, Doughty fashioned a lyrical evocation of the desert and the peoples who inhabit this mysterious world. In the estimation of fellow explorer Benedict Allen: 'The book, which brims with lively observations of human character, opened European eyes to the Arabian desert - not least Gertrude Bell, and later Wilfred Thesiger, who were profoundly influenced by it'. The great Arabist, T. E. Lawrence also enthused about Doughty's achievement: 'The book had no date and can never grow old. It is the first and indispensable work upon the Arabs of the desert'. For Jan Morris, the book is 'entirely unique ... Whether for the strange beauty of its language, its record of a tremendous adventure, or its accurate evocation of a landscape and a civilisation, Travels in Arabia Deserta is truly one of a kind'.