Western exploration of the Arabian Desert began in the
mid-eighteenth century, but it was not until the nineteenth century
that the British officers of the Indian colonial government
undertook surveys of the areas remote from the major pilgrimage
routes. Charles Doughty (1843 1926) spent two years among various
nomad tribes and wrote in 1888 what would be the first
comprehensive Western work on the geography of Arabia, in an
attempt, as he says in the preface, to 'set forth faithfully some
parcel of the soil of Arabia smelling of s mn and camels'. His
classic and justly famous account is a fantastic piece of travel
writing that shows full understanding of the area, the people and
all aspects of nomadic life in the desert.
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