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Thesiger spent 5 years travelling around the Empty Quarter by camel (from 1945), ostensibly to research locusts but really just because he wanted to. Most of his recollections are of the Bedu people that he meets, which makes for an interesting and warm tale.

I‘m using this book for #oman for #readingasia2021, as much of the Empty Quarter lies in modern-day Oman, even though it was classed as ‘Arabia‘ back then.

This is the only type of cleaning I don‘t mind doing! 🤣

#audiodusting

I‘m enjoying this book for #readingasia2021 #oman. It‘s a proper adventure, and read by someone with a posh voice, which suits it perfectly!

Yet another from #mummysquirrel‘s shelves - she‘s the best for travel books! 😁

#aflowerinthedesert

#wanderingjune

#mummysquirrelrecommends Post 2 of 4

Some more adventure books @Centique and @Oryx .....

My Father‘s Island is a story of a family who fled Nazi Germany to find wild horses and shipwrecks on the Galapagos. Johanna returns after her father passes away to learn more about her past.

Thesiger spent 5 years roaming Arabia from 1945, learning about and writing about the vanishing life of the Bedouin.

It is becoming rare nowadays to find a foldout map in its own little back pocket of a book, but it used to be more common in old travel works. I found this first edition beauty not too long ago and had to have it as I'm a huge Thesiger fan. Check out his Marsh Arabs as well for another wonderful ethnographic travelogue. @Oblomov26 You will like this, I'm sure! 😀 #MapsinBooks #SomethingforSept

One of the great twentieth century adventurers and travelers this is Thesigers first book and arguably his best. Born in Ethiopia the son of a diplomat, educated at Oxford, a Major in the SAS is world war 2. After the war, he traveled and wrote. This book covers his travels in the empty quarter of Arabia, travels he undertook with the local Bedouin constantly at threat from hostile tribes and lack of water. Fascinating picture of a lost world.

One of the great twentieth century adventurers and travelers this is Thesigers first book and arguably his best. Born in Ethiopia the son of a diplomat, educated at Oxford, a Major in the SAS is world war 2. After the war, he traveled and wrote. This book covers his travels in the empty quarter of Arabia, travels he undertook with the local Bedouin constantly at threat from hostile tribes and lack of water. Fascinating picture of a lost world.