{"product_id":"2026200017539-secondhand-passages-from-arabia-deserta","title":"Passages From Arabia Deserta","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn one of the most celebrated travel narratives in the English language, Charles M. Doughty's Passages from Arabia Deserta chronicles his extraordinary two-year journey through the uncharted deserts of the Arabian Peninsula in the late 1870s, a trek of almost unimaginable hardship and wonder. Selected by Edward Garnett from the sprawling two-volume masterwork Travels in Arabia Deserta, this abridged edition presents the most vivid and arresting passages of Doughty's account — from his encounters with Bedouin tribes and Ottoman authorities to his breathtaking descriptions of ancient Nabataean ruins at Medain Salih — immersing the reader in a world that was simultaneously hostile, magnificent, and utterly foreign to Western eyes.\n\nDoughty's prose style is unlike anything else in the travel writing canon: archaic, dense, and incantatory, it draws on biblical cadences and Chaucerian English to conjure the timeless rhythms of desert life with an almost archaeological precision. T.E. Lawrence famously championed Arabia Deserta as one of the great books in the English language, and its influence on subsequent writers of adventure and exploration is immeasurable. Beyond its value as a geographical and ethnographic document, the work stands as a profound meditation on faith, endurance, and the encounter between cultures — leaving the reader to wonder what extraordinary fortitude drove a Victorian Englishman, alone and often reviled as a Christian infidel, deeper and deeper into the burning heart of Arabia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49216206274779,"sku":"2026200017539-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/0bec9a43-39a9-414d-9dac-ce8913c9c779.png?v=1788405326","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200017539-secondhand-passages-from-arabia-deserta","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}