Author: Charles Montagu Doughty
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Travels in Arabia Deserta
Author: Charles M. Doughty
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Explorations in Doughty's Arabia Deserta
Author: Stephen E. Tabachnick
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820340030
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Charles Montagu Doughty's Travels in Arabia Deserta (1888) is remarkable for its scientific evelations and brilliantly unique style—an artful combination of Arabic and English syntax and diction that rendered a foreign way of life and thought and depicted a distant landscape of stark, barren beauty. The ten original essays in this book examine many aspects of Arabia Deserta, including its Victorian characteristics and aesthetics; its blend of fact and fantasy; its portrayal of Arab society and of Doughty himself; and the accuracy of its geographical, geological, archaeological, historical, and ethnographical observations. Additionally, the book's introduction and two bibliographies probe Arabia Deserta's reception, unique position in the genre of travel literature, and bibliographical history. During the grueling twenty-one-month journey narrated in Arabia Deserta, Doughty endured periods of sickness and near-famine, a series of treacherous guides, attack by a mob, and virtual imprisonment by a corrupt Turkish commandant. Celebrating this epic of scholarship and survival, Explorations in Doughty's "Arabia Deserta" maps the contours of a work that T. E. Lawrence, who had followed Doughty's path to Arabia, called "a book not like other books, but something particular, a bible of its kind."
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820340030
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Charles Montagu Doughty's Travels in Arabia Deserta (1888) is remarkable for its scientific evelations and brilliantly unique style—an artful combination of Arabic and English syntax and diction that rendered a foreign way of life and thought and depicted a distant landscape of stark, barren beauty. The ten original essays in this book examine many aspects of Arabia Deserta, including its Victorian characteristics and aesthetics; its blend of fact and fantasy; its portrayal of Arab society and of Doughty himself; and the accuracy of its geographical, geological, archaeological, historical, and ethnographical observations. Additionally, the book's introduction and two bibliographies probe Arabia Deserta's reception, unique position in the genre of travel literature, and bibliographical history. During the grueling twenty-one-month journey narrated in Arabia Deserta, Doughty endured periods of sickness and near-famine, a series of treacherous guides, attack by a mob, and virtual imprisonment by a corrupt Turkish commandant. Celebrating this epic of scholarship and survival, Explorations in Doughty's "Arabia Deserta" maps the contours of a work that T. E. Lawrence, who had followed Doughty's path to Arabia, called "a book not like other books, but something particular, a bible of its kind."
Travels in Arabia Deserta
Author: Charles Montagu Doughty
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Wanderings in Arabia
Author: Charles Montagu Doughty
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Travels in Arabia
Author: Bayard Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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The Dawn in Britain
Author: Charles Montagu Doughty
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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God's Fugitive
Author: Andrew Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780760720172
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780760720172
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Scenes in America Deserta
Author: Reyner Banham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500272787
Category : Deserts
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500272787
Category : Deserts
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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God's Fugitive
Author: Andrew Taylor
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This volume investigates the life of British scholar C.M. Doughty, who published in 1888 his work, "Travels in Arabia Deserta", the story presents his archaeological investigations and his observations of Arabia and desert life.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This volume investigates the life of British scholar C.M. Doughty, who published in 1888 his work, "Travels in Arabia Deserta", the story presents his archaeological investigations and his observations of Arabia and desert life.
Land and Mind
Author: Bsaithi Omar
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443806722
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
This book is both a study of the work of the Scottish writer, Kenneth White, in thought, travel writing and poetry, and an application of one of White’s main concepts, geopoetics, to Charles Doughty’ Arabia Deserta. It is a largely forgotten fact that Doughty considered all his travels to be leading up to an ars poetica. Omar Bsaïthi’s thesis is that Arabia Deserta is a superb example of geopoetics in action The result of the meeting of White and Doughty orchestrated by Bsaïthi is not only the reinterpretation of an English classic and perhaps a renewal of Arab studies, it is an introduction, via the writings of Kenneth White, to a regrounded field of culture. “In his presentation of geopoetics and intellectual nomadism, Bsaithi draws attention both to the nature of discontent felt in the Western culture and civilization in the postmodern era, and to the possible forms of encounter between figures highly representative of the Western mind, searching for the “ways out”, and other cultural spaces.” —Khalid Hajji, Professor at Mohamed 1rst University, Oujda, Morocoo “It is the merit of Mr Omar Bsaithi’s book to focus on a Franco-Scottish poet to establish an unprecedented correlation with Charles Doughty, author of Travels in Arabia Deserta. By so doing, he applies a method which belongs to Kenneth White’s own geopoetic practice: in a different and a priori foreign cultural context, he reveals similitudes and links through the study of a deeper and more poetic relation to terrestrial space.” —Laurent Margantin, Université de La Réunion
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443806722
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
This book is both a study of the work of the Scottish writer, Kenneth White, in thought, travel writing and poetry, and an application of one of White’s main concepts, geopoetics, to Charles Doughty’ Arabia Deserta. It is a largely forgotten fact that Doughty considered all his travels to be leading up to an ars poetica. Omar Bsaïthi’s thesis is that Arabia Deserta is a superb example of geopoetics in action The result of the meeting of White and Doughty orchestrated by Bsaïthi is not only the reinterpretation of an English classic and perhaps a renewal of Arab studies, it is an introduction, via the writings of Kenneth White, to a regrounded field of culture. “In his presentation of geopoetics and intellectual nomadism, Bsaithi draws attention both to the nature of discontent felt in the Western culture and civilization in the postmodern era, and to the possible forms of encounter between figures highly representative of the Western mind, searching for the “ways out”, and other cultural spaces.” —Khalid Hajji, Professor at Mohamed 1rst University, Oujda, Morocoo “It is the merit of Mr Omar Bsaithi’s book to focus on a Franco-Scottish poet to establish an unprecedented correlation with Charles Doughty, author of Travels in Arabia Deserta. By so doing, he applies a method which belongs to Kenneth White’s own geopoetic practice: in a different and a priori foreign cultural context, he reveals similitudes and links through the study of a deeper and more poetic relation to terrestrial space.” —Laurent Margantin, Université de La Réunion