Arabian Sands

Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched -Empty Quarter- of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life—-the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets.- In the spirit of T. E. Lawrence, he set out to explore the deserts of Arabia, traveling among peoples who had never seen a European and considered it their duty to kill Christian infidels. His now-classic account is invaluable to understanding the modern Middle East.