Author: Charles M. DoughtyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Travels in Arabia Deserta
Author: Charles M. DoughtyTravels in Arabia Deserta
Author: Charles Montagu DoughtyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Explorations in Doughty's Arabia Deserta
Author: Stephen E. TabachnickPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820340030
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
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."
Travels in Arabia Deserta
Author: Charles M. DoughtyPublisher: Ravenio Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
Charles Montagu Doughty (1843 – 1926) was an English poet and traveller, best remembered for his sprawling 1888 work, Travels in Arabia Deserta, which was highly praised by T.E. Lawrence in the 1920s.
Arabia Deserta
Author: Alois MusilPublisher:
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Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Desert Kingdom
Author: Toby Craig JonesPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674059409
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Oil and water, and the science and technology used to harness them, have long been at the heart of political authority in Saudi Arabia. Oil’s abundance, and the fantastic wealth it generated, has been a keystone in the political primacy of the kingdom’s ruling family. The other bedrock element was water, whose importance was measured by its dearth. Over much of the twentieth century, it was through efforts to control and manage oil and water that the modern state of Saudi Arabia emerged. The central government’s power over water, space, and people expanded steadily over time, enabled by increasing oil revenues. The operations of the Arabian American Oil Company proved critical to expansion and to achieving power over the environment. Political authority in Saudi Arabia took shape through global networks of oil, science, and expertise. And, where oil and water were central to the forging of Saudi authoritarianism, they were also instrumental in shaping politics on the ground. Nowhere was the impact more profound than in the oil-rich Eastern Province, where the politics of oil and water led to a yearning for national belonging and to calls for revolution. Saudi Arabia is traditionally viewed through the lenses of Islam, tribe, and the economics of oil. Desert Kingdom now provides an alternative history of environmental power and the making of the modern Saudi state. It demonstrates how vital the exploitation of nature and the roles of science and global experts were to the consolidation of political authority in the desert.
The New Republic
Author: Europe's Myths of Orient
Author: Rana KabbaniPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349073202
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Oriental Explorations and Studies
Author: American Geographical Society of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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A Dictionary of the Holy Bible
Author: Edward RobinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description