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"A legend in his own lifetime (1910-2003), the explorer and traveller Wilfred Thesiger journeyed for sixty years in some of the remotest, most dangerous places on earth. His books, including Arabian Sands, The Marsh Arabs and The Life of My Choice, are widely acclaimed, yet - evocative though these are - his character and motivations have remained to this day an intriguing enigma." "Now his close friend and literary executor, Alexander Maitland, who...
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Story of five years of travel with the nomad Arabs in the unknown deserts of Southern Arabia.
Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life, "the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets." In the spirit of T.E. Lawrence, he set out to explore the deserts of Arabia,...
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Three thousand years ago, a dusky queen swept into the court of King Solomon, and from that time to the present day, her tale has been told and retold. Who was this queen? Did she really exist? In a quixotic odyssey that takes him to Ethiopia, Arabia, Israel, and even a village in France, Nicholas Clapp seeks the underlying truth behind the multifaceted myth of the queen of Sheba.
It's an eventful journey. In Israel, he learns of a living queen...