Across the Empty Quarter
Across the Empty Quarter by Wilfred Thesiger, published by Penguin Books in 2007, is a compelling account of the author’s journeys across Saudi Arabia’s Empty Quarter. This edition, comprising 96 pages, presents Thesiger’s quest for adventure and self-discovery in a rapidly changing world. Through his travels, he highlights the resilience of the Bedouins who guided him, portraying them as the true heroes of his narrative.
Readers will find a rich exploration of themes related to travel, cultural encounters, and the challenges posed by modernization. Thesiger’s reflections offer insights into the landscapes he traversed and the diverse cultures he encountered, making this work a significant contribution to literary collections and essays on social science and anthropology. The book invites readers to engage with a time when exploration was fraught with uncertainty and wonder, encouraging a deeper understanding of the past and its relevance to contemporary society.
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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.
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