Includes a frontis portrait and a very few b&w illustrations. Originally published in 1888, this two volume Dover edition is an unabridged, unaltered republication of the definitive version of the third edition published by Jonathan Cape of London in 1936. Includes the introduction by T E Lawrence and the prefaces to the first, second, and third editions. Translated from the Aramaic by Ernest Renan; note on architecture by M de Vogue. Charles Doughty wrote Travels in Arabia Deserta after two years of wandering, in continual hazard of his life, among the Beduin nomads. By training a geologist, by inclination an 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. Volume One: 674 pages, Appendix. Volume Two: 696 pages, Index and Glossary of Arabic Words, Appendix. Books are 9.25 inches tall.
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