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Wilfred Thesiger was born in Addis Ababa in 1910 and educated at Eton and Oxford. Though British, he was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life, "the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets, etc." In the spirit of T.E. Lawrence, Thesiger spent five years exploring and wandering the deserts of Arabia. With vivid descriptions and colorful anecdotes he narrates his stories, including two crossings of the Empty Quarter, among peoples who had never seen a European and considered it their duty to kill Christian infidels.
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"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
"The narrative is vividly written, with a thousand little anecdotes and touches which bring back to any who have seen these countries every scene with the colour of real life."
-The Sunday Times, London --此文字指其他 kindle_edition 版本。
-The Daily Telegraph, London
"The narrative is vividly written, with a thousand little anecdotes and touches which bring back to any who have seen these countries every scene with the colour of real life."
-The Sunday Times, London --此文字指其他 kindle_edition 版本。
作者简介
Jon Lee Anderson is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of the national bestseller The Fall of Baghdad. He lives in Dorset, England.
Rory Stewart is the bestselling author of The Prince of the Marshes and The Places in Between. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire for services in Iraq. --此文字指其他 kindle_edition 版本。
Rory Stewart is the bestselling author of The Prince of the Marshes and The Places in Between. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire for services in Iraq. --此文字指其他 kindle_edition 版本。
基本信息
- ASIN : B0010SKSYY
- 出版社 : Penguin; 第 Illustrated 版 (2007年10月25日)
- 出版日期 : 2007年10月25日
- 语言 : 英语
- 文件大小 : 11622 KB
- 标准语音朗读 : 已启用
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- 纸书页数 : 360页
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Philip Green
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A Gift
2020年3月21日 -
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This is one of my favorite books. There's something so grand about the scale and ambition of Thesiger's journey to the Arabian desert. His whole life was building up to this point. Born to an English family in Ethiopia, he took an interest in other cultures from an early age. Thesiger set out exploring places not yet known well to the Western world. He wasn't only interested in other cultures, he often admired them. An early exploration of his was to the Danakil in Africa. Along the way he took many great photographs that show people and ways of life before the onset of modernity. Thesiger also served with the British military in Africa during World War II. By the time he set off for the Empty Quarter of Arabia, he was already well acquainted with travelling in places with difficult terrain and alien cultures. In Arabian Sands he dives in to the Empty Quarter for a long period of time. He lives and dines with the nomadic Bedouin inhabitants. He learns about the tribes and their sometimes chaotic way of life. He is throughout this journey still a wealthy Englishman who never joins the tribe. Thesiger remains always an outsider looking in and chronicling a way of life he knows will soon be disappearing. He is often admiring of the Bedouin culture and fascinated by their mores. Even though I read this book many years ago, I remember when he writes about the Bedouin feeling sad when an animal (I can't remember which one) died. He relates how their outpouring of grief in that moment contrasted with their usual stoicism. There are so many fascinating people and scenes in Arabian Sands. It is really a gift to all of us from Thesiger. Whether you agree with Thesiger's opinions or not, his Arabian journey is a window to a place and time that existed in some shape or form for thousands of years but will probably never exist again.
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Deb
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One of my idols
2014年4月24日 -
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I read this book when I was much younger and no one knew about this man nor much about Arabia. I was invited to be part of a team that would start an airline for the United Arab Emirates, a rather new country (formally the Trucial Coast- tribes that warred against each other and were Bedu and pearl divers). The airline was called Hamarein Air in about 1976 and was started by one little Bedu named Saif Hamarein. He owned small mini marts all over the Emirates, but especially in Ras al Khaima and Sharjah. he raised money from those to buy a 747!
I read this book as I started departing from LAX and since the flight was over 27 hours with a stop in Paris and an over night, I finished it.
This man, Sir Wilfred Thesiger was remarkable and although only 29 years old, struck off into uncharted lands even the Bedu did not dare cross. He traveled and lived among the tribes of all the areas he charted and learned amazing things from the nations. Because of him today, we learned much about a peoples unknown to the western world. I often wondered what happened to him and since we did not have computers, there was little way to actually look for him. He seemed to have vanished. But on my second time living among the Emirates in the 1990's, they found him in a mud hut in Africa being cared for by an Ethiopian woman and he had satchels of film never processed from his trips in the 1940's! I own 2 of these unpublished photos of his journeys and had the amazing pleasure of meeting my idol at 90+ years old! I cherish my photo with him. He was a remarkable man who did much to bring us the very news about corners of the earth he was later to regret as it brought westernization to the quiet countries and people he adored.
I read this book as I started departing from LAX and since the flight was over 27 hours with a stop in Paris and an over night, I finished it.
This man, Sir Wilfred Thesiger was remarkable and although only 29 years old, struck off into uncharted lands even the Bedu did not dare cross. He traveled and lived among the tribes of all the areas he charted and learned amazing things from the nations. Because of him today, we learned much about a peoples unknown to the western world. I often wondered what happened to him and since we did not have computers, there was little way to actually look for him. He seemed to have vanished. But on my second time living among the Emirates in the 1990's, they found him in a mud hut in Africa being cared for by an Ethiopian woman and he had satchels of film never processed from his trips in the 1940's! I own 2 of these unpublished photos of his journeys and had the amazing pleasure of meeting my idol at 90+ years old! I cherish my photo with him. He was a remarkable man who did much to bring us the very news about corners of the earth he was later to regret as it brought westernization to the quiet countries and people he adored.
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Amazing
2022年1月12日 -
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Took ages to get to me but i was deployed so whatever. I read about 15 books during my deployment to Qatar. This is the one that sticks with me. Hard to explain why. It left an impression though. Highly recommend. Exposes you to a world only a few truly experienced first hand. Perhaps none so much as the author.