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Cargando... Across the Empty Quarter (Penguin Great Journeys) (1959 original; edición 2007)por Wilfred Thesiger
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Travelling across the uncharted sand dunes of Saudi Arabia/ Oman in 1947 in the company of a group of Bedu. Thesiger tells of the camels; the desperate shortages of food and water...and the dastardly Arabs, eager to kill enemy tribes..and infidels. It's certainly a Great Journey...(to me) not one of the most gripping of this series - no fault of the author, but maybe crossing the desert (there and back) becomes a tad monotonous for the reader as you get towards the end. ( ) Wilfred Thesiger is to be included in that select list of the 'great travellers' of the world. 'Across the Empty Quarter' tells in abridged form the journeys that he made across the Arabian Desert in the 1940's. You can feel the extreme heat and the desolation and also be fully aware of the dangers he endured during these travels. Another thing that is clear is the companionship and help given by the Bedouin who travelled with him. This is another in the series of 'Penguin Great Journeys', which I cannot recommend enough. Restless, gripped by an overwhelming wish to make a name for himself in a world ever more hemmed in by progress and 'civilisation', 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. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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