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Arabian Sands
Written by Wilfred Thesiger
Narrated by Laurence Kennedy
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger’s stunning account of five years spent crossing the Arabian Peninsula by foot and on camels, with nomadic Bedouin tribesmen as guides. Traveling between 1945 and 1950, the British explorer treks through Yemen, The Empty Quarter, Oman and parts of the then Trucial States, crossing and re-crossing around 250,000 miles of this most inhospitable terrain. He was the first European ever to set eyes on the dunes and wadis of these deserts. Faced with constant challenges and trials beneath the punishing sun, his journey is also spiritual and enriching, as it requires the utmost courage, patience, generosity and humor. In clear and evocative prose, Thesiger documents a journey of unimaginable hardship and startling beauty, as well as a time, place and people on the cusp of change.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A great memoir of the Arabian Desert and the Bedouin people. He met so many interesting characters
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazing book on travel , this I have read 3 times & every time , it gives me same pleasure as first reading .
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Incredible man and journey for its time. Interesting account of the tribes of the area before the oil boom. Re-readable!