Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Two volumes. Nice older books in good condition. Deccal paged editions. 1949 copies. Pages in good condition. Some tanning and marking and wear due to age. Page faces are excellent and bright. Pull out maps present in back. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> However there is no need at this time of day to commend Doughty to students. They all know of him. It is to the outside public willing to read a great prose work the record of the wanderings of an English poet for two years among the Beduins that this edition must make its appeal – and perhaps with them that the verdict of present-day travellers in Arabia will have weight. I have talked the book over with many travellers and we are agreed that here you have all the desert its hills and plains the lava fields the villages the tents the men and animals. They are told of to the life with words and phrases fitted to them so perfectly that one cannot dissociate them in memory. It is the true Arabia the land with its smells and dirt as well as its nobility and freedom. There is no sentiment nothing merely picturesque that most common failing of oriental travel-books. Doughty’s completeness is devastating. There is nothing we would take away little we could add. He took all Arabia for his province and has left to his successors only the poor part of specialists. We may write books on parts of the desert or some of the history of it; but there can never be another picture of the whole in our time because here it is all said and by a great master. (OS)