Arabian Sands (Used)
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Author: Wilfred Thesiger
9780140095142 | PB | pp. 350 | 1964 | Penguin Books | Used
Arabian Sands chronicles Wilfred Thesiger’s journeys around the Rub Al Khali, with expansive sand dunes, just before modernisation brought a huge change.
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Description
Arabian Sands describes the journeys Wilfred Thesiger made in and around the Empty Quarter from 1945 to 1950, at which time much of that region had not yet been seen by a European. He returned to Arabia in 1977 at the invitation of the Oman Government and Emir Zayid of Abu Dhabi.
Even before he left Arabia in 1950, the Iraq Petroleum Company had started to search for oil in the territories of Abu Dhabi and Dubai. They soon discovered it in enormous quantities, and as a result the life as is have described in this book disappeared for ever. Here, as elsewhere in Arabia, the changes which occurred in the space of a decade or two were as great as those which occurred in Britain between the early Middle Ages and the present day.
This book is therefore a memorial to a vanished past, one with a very different way of life.
Additional information
| Photographers: | Wilfred Thesiger |
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| ISBN: | 9780140095142 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 350 |
| Year of Publication: | 1964 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Edition: | First |
| Condition: | Used |
| Country of Origin: | United Kingdom |
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