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Explorations in Doughty's Arabia Deserta (Paperback)
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Explorations in Doughty's Arabia Deserta (Paperback)
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Charles Montagu Doughty's "Travels in Arabia Deserta" (1888) is
remarkable for its scientific evelations and brilliantly unique
style--an artful combination of Arabic and English syntax and
diction that rendered a foreign way of life and thought and
depicted a distant landscape of stark, barren beauty. The ten
original essays in this book examine many aspects of "Arabia
Deserta," including its Victorian characteristics and aesthetics;
its blend of fact and fantasy; its portrayal of Arab society and of
Doughty himself; and the accuracy of its geographical, geological,
archaeological, historical, and ethnographical observations.
Additionally, the book's introduction and two bibliographies probe
"Arabia Deserta"'s reception, unique position in the genre of
travel literature, and bibliographical history. During the grueling
twenty-one-month journey narrated in "Arabia Deserta," Doughty
endured periods of sickness and near-famine, a series of
treacherous guides, attack by a mob, and virtual imprisonment by a
corrupt Turkish commandant. Celebrating this epic of scholarship
and survival, "Explorations in Doughty's "Arabia Deserta"" maps the
contours of a work that T. E. Lawrence, who had followed Doughty's
path to Arabia, called "a book not like other books, but something
particular, a bible of its kind."
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