`WANDERINGS IN ARABIA` BY CHARLES M DOUGHTY

"WANDERINGS IN ARABIA" BY CHARLES M DOUGHTY. HARD COVER, CLOTHBOUND, 607 PAGES, NO INSCRIPTIONS OR NAMES, 1949, IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.

t is the first book to be written, in any language, about wide tracts of the Arabian Penisula. Out of his remote and lonely wanderings, Doughty fashioned a lyrical evocation of the desert and the peoples who inhabit this mysterious world. In the estimation of fellow explorer Benedict Allen: The book, which brims with lively observations of human character, opened European eyes to the Arabian desert not least Gertrude Bell, and later Wilfred Thesiger, who were profoundly influenced by it.