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Crossing the Empty Quarter - In the Footsteps of Bertram Thomas (Hardcover)
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Crossing the Empty Quarter - In the Footsteps of Bertram Thomas (Hardcover)
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Arabia's vast Rub Al Khali desert is one of the world's most
extreme and inhospitable environments, and in 1930 the race was on
to become the first European to cross what is the biggest sand
desert on earth. The potential hardship was not to deter Bertram
Thomas, the intrepid British explorer who set out to travel from
south to north in the winter of 1930-3, guided by Omani Sheikh
Saleh Bin Kalut al Rashidi al Kathiri. Challenged by the unknown,
they walked for nearly 1,300 kilometres from Salalah on the coast
of Oman, through the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to Doha, the capital
of Qatar; it was to be the first recorded crossing, dashing the
hopes of Ibn Philby. Now, some 85 years later, leading British
explorer Mark Evans has taken on the challenge again, accompanied
by an equally intrepid Omani team and crossing the same stretch of
desert. Pulling together extensive archive material with
contemporary photography Evans presents a dramatic and highly
readable account of those 49 days traversing the famous sand sea on
foot and by camel - exploration in the grand tradition of the
pioneers.
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