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Two amazon reviews: An excellent, though challenging read, May 27, 1999 By A Customer Doughty wrote in a relatively laboured, archaic style which demands patience from the reader. Initially on that account it was hard going for me (and I would image, for most people), but the book, wherein he presents an account of his solitary travels and tribulations during a period of nearly two years between 1876 and 1878, has long been widely regarded as a classic. It rewards persistence, and I found it quite spell-binding. Doughty was not without an ironic sense of humour as you can see from what he wrote about an Arab he encountered; "...his strength lay in his stubborn brawns and large breast, and little in his brains which indeed were not very well settled." And something of his style as he wrote about pilgrams he fell in with on the way to Mecca: "... peasants for the most part, as the richer and delicate livers are ever less zealous to seek hallows than poor bodies with small consolation in this world." Fantastic freaky style of Charles Doughty, May 29, 1998 By A Customer Convinced in the late 1800s that the English language had become hopelessly corrupt, Charles Doughty attempted in Arabia Deserta (and, less successfully, in his epic poems) to graft Victorian English onto Elizabethan syntax. The result was a beautiful, sometimes obscure, entirely original style that had a great deal of influence on the English modernists, particularly Henry Green. I recommend it to anyone with a modicum of patience and taste.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Doughty, Charles Montagu - Numerous Sketches (illustrator). Volume One. 674 Pages. Comprehensive 117 Page Index and Glossary is in Volume Two. This is VOLUME ONE ONLY. Light wear to covers. Back cover has price blacked out. No other apparent marks or stamps and interior text pages are white and tight. This Dover edition, first published in 1979, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the definitive version of the third edition published in London in 1936 by Jonathan Cape Ltd. The work was originally published in 1888 by Cambridge University Press. The second edition was published in London by P. Lee Warner in January, 1921, and the third edition was first issued by the same publisher in October 1921. Colonel T. E. Lawrence derived much of the original inspiration for his Arabian adventures from Charles M. Doughty's Travels in Arabia Deserta. Of this book, little known to the public but long famous among Arabists, travelers, geographers, and connoisseurs of English prose, Lawrence wrote, "I have studied it for ten years, and have grown to consider it a book not like other books, but something particular, a bible of its kind . The book has no date and can never grow old. It is the first and indispensable work upon the Arabs of the desert." By training geologist, by inclination itinerant scholar, Doughty first heard of strange Arabian inscriptions while drifting about Syria. To see and record them, and to chart the unknown land formations, he joined the pilgrimage caravan to Mecca, leaving it to live with the fanatical Hejaz and Nejd nomads, at all times subject to abuse, threats, and indignities for refusing to deny his Christianity. His descriptions of Beduin grandeur and pettiness, his accounts of daily famine level existence and endurance of desert and Mohammedan extremes, rank the book with the greatest travel ethnographic journals and geographic commentaries. Yet it is his style which marks the book unique: Doughty believed the English language had fallen from grace since Spenser; he set out to restore its beauty through sonorous rhythm and a vocabulary and syntax recalling the Tyndale Bible. The result is a memorable fitting of style to subject, for it often seemed to Doughty those two years that he was back among the Patriarchs of Judah and Ishmael. The uncut Dover edition in two volumes brings Arabia Deserta back, after many years' regrettable absence, to rejoin the few travel masterpieces of the language. The Aramaic inscriptions Doughty recorded are translated by Ernest Renan; a note on architecture, a note on geology, numerous sketches by Doughty, and an index (See Volume Two) with glossary of Arabic words complete this most unusual essay, this book which has been, like Arabia itself, much talked of, but rarely seen. List of Doughty Plates: Frontispiece in the Borj Rocks, Another Sepulchral Cavern Panorama, Sit of Medain Salih, Encampmenet of Billi Aarab, Jebel Anaz, Height of Harrat El-Aueyrid, and Harrat El-Aueyrid. Seller Inventory # 18576
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