Lawrence Of Arabia
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few figures in modern history have captured the world's imagination quite like T.E. Lawrence — soldier, scholar, and desert warrior — whose extraordinary life forms the beating heart of Robert Payne's Lawrence of Arabia. Set against the sweeping, sun-scorched landscapes of the Arabian Peninsula during the First World War, the biography chronicles the astonishing true story of a British officer who shed his uniform for Arab robes and galvanised a tribal revolt against the Ottoman Empire, becoming a living legend in the process. Payne, a prolific and masterful biographer, presents Lawrence not merely as a military tactician but as a profoundly complex and contradictory figure — a man torn between cultures, driven by idealism, and haunted by the brutal realities of the causes he championed. Written with vivid narrative momentum and psychological acuity, the work illuminates the collision of empire, identity, and honour that defined the early twentieth century. For anyone drawn to tales of daring, self-reinvention, and the turbulent birth of the modern Middle East, this is an account that refuses to be forgotten.
Author: Robert Payne
Format: Paperback
Published: 1962, Pyramid Books
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few figures in modern history have captured the world's imagination quite like T.E. Lawrence — soldier, scholar, and desert warrior — whose extraordinary life forms the beating heart of Robert Payne's Lawrence of Arabia. Set against the sweeping, sun-scorched landscapes of the Arabian Peninsula during the First World War, the biography chronicles the astonishing true story of a British officer who shed his uniform for Arab robes and galvanised a tribal revolt against the Ottoman Empire, becoming a living legend in the process. Payne, a prolific and masterful biographer, presents Lawrence not merely as a military tactician but as a profoundly complex and contradictory figure — a man torn between cultures, driven by idealism, and haunted by the brutal realities of the causes he championed. Written with vivid narrative momentum and psychological acuity, the work illuminates the collision of empire, identity, and honour that defined the early twentieth century. For anyone drawn to tales of daring, self-reinvention, and the turbulent birth of the modern Middle East, this is an account that refuses to be forgotten.