{"product_id":"2026100009543-secondhand-travels-in-arabia-deserta","title":"Travels In Arabia Deserta","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: Thin Paper Edition in One Volume Complete and Unabridged. Reprint\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn one of the most celebrated works of Victorian travel writing, Charles M. Doughty chronicles his audacious two-year journey through the vast and unforgiving Arabian Peninsula, beginning in 1876 — a world of scorching deserts, Bedouin encampments, and ancient Nabataean ruins that few Western eyes had ever witnessed. Travels in Arabia Deserta presents a sweeping, immersive portrait of a vanishing way of life, capturing the customs, dialects, flora, fauna, and daily rhythms of the Arab tribes with the meticulous eye of a scientist and the lyrical soul of a poet.\n\nDoughty's prose style — dense, archaic, and utterly singular — draws on the cadences of Chaucer and Spenser to create a narrative of almost mythic weight, earning the admiration of T.E. Lawrence, who contributed the introduction to this edition and called it one of the greatest prose works in the English language. This compact edition, condensed and unabridged in one volume, makes accessible a text that has long been considered essential reading for anyone captivated by the spirit of exploration, the beauty of the Arab world, and the outer limits of human endurance — leaving the reader to wonder how one man survived, and why the desert never truly let him go.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203180339419,"sku":"2026100009543-SECONDHAND","price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/aad7313f-9bd0-4e0d-8ee3-31498dfc23b2.png?v=1788144996","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009543-secondhand-travels-in-arabia-deserta","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}