Wanderings in Arabia, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Wanderings in Arabia, Vol. 1 of 2 Nearly twenty years have passed since the original edition of Mr. Doughty's narrative of his adventurous explorations in Central Arabia was published by the Cambridge Press, and it is safe to say that while the learned world of European scientists devoted to the study of Arabia and its problems, geographical, geological, archwological, botanical, ethnological, and philolo gical, has acknowledged its lasting debt to Mr. Doughty, both English literary men and the reading public at large have come into contact with the work scarcely at all. This is due in part to to the sharp division that separates men of science from critics of literature, and in part to the great length (eleven hundred pages) and costliness of the original edition. But Arabia Deserta on its appearance made a twofold claim to rank as a classic among the great travel books in our literature - first for its scientific value as a work of first-hand authority throwing a ¿ood of light on obscure and much-vexed questions of Arabian geography and the life of the desert tribes, and secondly as a work of pure literature, appealing by the consummate art of its wonderful picture of human life in the wild uplands and town oases of Arabia, seen through the eyes of a wandering English man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.