Western exploration of the Arabian Desert began in the mid-eighteenth century, but it was not until the nineteenth century that the British officers of theIndian colonial government undertook surveys of the areas remote from the major pilgrimage routes. Charles Doughty (1843–1926) spent two years among various nomad tribes and wrote in 1888 what would be the first comprehensive Westernwork on the geography of Arabia, in an attempt, as he says in the preface, to‘set forth faithfully some parcel of the soil of Arabia smelling of sàmn and camels’. His classic and justly famous account is a fantastic piece of travel writing that shows full understanding of the area, the people and all aspects of nomadic life in the desert. INDICE: 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 Moahibsummer 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.
- ISBN: 978-1-108-00946-1
- Editorial: Cambridge University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 668
- Fecha Publicación: 17/06/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés