{"product_id":"travels-in-arabia-deserta-paperback-9781108009478","title":"Travels in Arabia Deserta (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108009478","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTravels in Arabia Deserta\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe second of two volumes of Charles Doughty's classic account of travels in Arabia in the late nineteenth century.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCharles Montagu Doughty (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108009478, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 17 June 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e712 pages, 10 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 4.6 cm, 1.03 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWestern 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Ibn Rashid's town\u003cbr\u003e 2. Life in Hayil\u003cbr\u003e 3. Depart from Hayil\u003cbr\u003e 4. Kheybar\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Kheyabara\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Medina life at Kheybar\u003cbr\u003e 7. Galla-land\u003cbr\u003e 8. Deliverance from Kheybar\u003cbr\u003e 9. Desert journey to Hayil\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Shammar and Harb deserts in Nejd\u003cbr\u003e 11. Journey to El-Kasim\u003cbr\u003e Appendix to Chapter 11\u003cbr\u003e 12. Aneyza\u003cbr\u003e 13. Life in Aneyza\u003cbr\u003e 14. The Christian stranger driven from Aneyza, and recalled\u003cbr\u003e Appendix to Chapter 14\u003cbr\u003e 15. Wars of Aneyza\u003cbr\u003e 16. Set out from El-Kasim, with the butter caravan from Mecca\u003cbr\u003e 17. Tayif\u003cbr\u003e 18. Wady Fatima\u003cbr\u003e Appendix to Volume 2.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Middle Eastern history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Middle Eastern history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Middle%20Eastern%20history%20%5BHBJF1%5D%22\"\u003eHBJF1\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265923240216,"sku":"9781108009478","price":60.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108009478i_ccffd106-f9f8-4f60-a2da-c23d22c70f3d.jpg?v=1694867451","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/travels-in-arabia-deserta-paperback-9781108009478","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}