ARABIAN SANDS

Wilfred Thesiger

Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger’s record of his extraordinary journey through the parched Empty Quarter of Arabia. Educated at Oxford university, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life – “the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets” – and, in the spirit of T. E. Lawrence, set out to explore the deserts of Arabia.

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