Travels in Arabia Deserta - Volume 1

Informationen zum Autor CHARLES MONTAGU DOUGHTY (1843-1926) was an English poet and writer born in Theberton Hall! Saxmundham! Suffolk. He attended King's College London and graduated from Gonville and Caius College! Cambridge in 1864. Among this author's works are an epic poem in six volumes titled The Dawn in Britain! published in 1906! and his well-known Travels in Arabia Deserta! for which he received much praise. Klappentext The first of two volumes of Charles Doughty's classic account of travels in Arabia in the late nineteenth century. Zusammenfassung Charles Doughty says in his preface to Travels in Arabia Deserta (first published in 1888) that he has tried to 'set forth faithfully some parcel of the soil of Arabia'. This is a classic and justly famous account of an area previously little known to Westerners. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. The Peraea; 2. The mountains of Edom; 3. The haj journeying in Arabia; 4. Medain Salih; 5. Medain Salih and El-Ally; 6. El-Ally, El-Khreyby, Medain; Appendix to ch. 4, 5 and 6; 7. Return of the haj; 8. The nomad life in the desert; 9. Life in the wandering village; 10. The nomads in the desert; 11. The Fukara wandering as fugitives in another dira; 12. Peace in the desert; 13. Medain revisited; 14. Wandering upon the Harra with the Moahib; 15. Nomad life upon the Harra; 16. The Aarab forsake the Harra; 17. The Moahib summer camp in Wady Thirba; 18. The Fukara summering at El-Hejr; 19. Teyma; 20. The date harvest; 21. The Jebel; 22. Hayil; Appendix to Volume 1.

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The first of two volumes of Charles Doughty's classic account of travels in Arabia in the late nineteenth century.

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Charles Doughty says in his preface to Travels in Arabia Deserta (first published in 1888) that he has tried to 'set forth faithfully some parcel of the soil of Arabia'. This is a classic and justly famous account of an area previously little known to Westerners.

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Preface; 1. The Peraea; 2. The mountains of Edom; 3. The haj journeying in Arabia; 4. Medain Salih; 5. Medain Salih and El-Ally; 6. El-Ally, El-Khreyby, Medain; Appendix to ch. 4, 5 and 6; 7. Return of the haj; 8. The nomad life in the desert; 9. Life in the wandering village; 10. The nomads in the desert; 11. The Fukara wandering as fugitives in another dira; 12. Peace in the desert; 13. Medain revisited; 14. Wandering upon the Harra with the Moahib; 15. Nomad life upon the Harra; 16. The Aarab forsake the Harra; 17. The Moahib summer camp in Wady Thirba; 18. The Fukara summering at El-Hejr; 19. Teyma; 20. The date harvest; 21. The Jebel; 22. Hayil; Appendix to Volume 1.