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2 Volumes, New & definitive edition 1936, reprint of Jan 1949Hardcover with clipped dustjackets, brown cloth covers good, djs have small tears to edges & are a little grubby from handling, a sound internally fine set.
Charles Montagu Doughty (1843 - 1926) was an English poet, writer, and traveller born in Theberton Hall, Saxmundham, Suffolk and educated at private schools and at a school for the royal navy, Portsmouth. Doughty graduated at Gonville and Cuius College, Cambridge, 1864.
He is best known for his 1888 travel book Travels in Arabia Deserta, a work in two volumes which, though it had little immediate influence upon its publication, slowly became a kind of touchstone of ambitious travel writing, one valued as much for its language as for its content. T. E. Lawrence rediscovered the book and caused it to be republished in the 1920s, contributing an admiring introduction of his own. Since then the book has gone in and out of print.
The book is a vast recounting of Doughty's treks through the Arabian deserts, and his discoveries there. It is written in an extravagant and mannered style, largely based on the King James Bible, but constantly surprising with verbal turns and odd inventiveness.
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