Restless, gripped by an overwhelming wish to make a name for
himself in a world ever more hemmed in by progress and
'civilization', Thesiger (1910-2003) embarked on his amazing
journeys across Saudi Arabia's Empty Quarter to test himself and to
show what could still be done. The result was a monument both to
his resilience and to the Bedu who guided him and who emerge as the
book's real heroes. "Great Journeys" allows readers to travel both
around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back
into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different
ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that
of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: great
civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles,
deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to
science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to
rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each
other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which
so much was still to be discovered.
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