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Travels in Arabia Deserta

Travels in Arabia Deserta

Travels in Arabia Deserta

Volume 2:
Charles Montagu Doughty
June 2010
2
Paperback
9781108009478

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    Western exploration of the Arabian Desert began in the mid-eighteenth century, but it was not until the nineteenth century that the British officers of the Indian colonial government undertook surveys of the areas remote from the major pilgrimage routes. Charles Doughty (1843–1926) spent two years among various nomad tribes and wrote in 1888 what would be the first comprehensive Western work on the geography of Arabia, in an attempt, as he says in the preface, to 'set forth faithfully some parcel of the soil of Arabia smelling of sàmn and camels'. His classic and justly famous account is a fantastic piece of travel writing that shows full understanding of the area, the people and all aspects of nomadic life in the desert.

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    June 2010
    Paperback
    9781108009478
    712 pages
    229 × 152 × 46 mm
    1.03kg
    10 b/w illus.
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    Table of Contents

    • 1. Ibn Rashid's town
    • 2. Life in Hayil
    • 3. Depart from Hayil
    • 4. Kheybar
    • 5. The Kheyabara
    • 6. The Medina life at Kheybar
    • 7. Galla-land
    • 8. Deliverance from Kheybar
    • 9. Desert journey to Hayil
    • 10. The Shammar and Harb deserts in Nejd
    • 11. Journey to El-Kasim
    • Appendix to Chapter 11
    • 12. Aneyza
    • 13. Life in Aneyza
    • 14. The Christian stranger driven from Aneyza, and recalled
    • Appendix to Chapter 14
    • 15. Wars of Aneyza
    • 16. Set out from El-Kasim, with the butter caravan from Mecca
    • 17. Tayif
    • 18. Wady Fatima
    • Appendix to Volume 2.
      Author
    • Charles Montagu Doughty