Arabian Sands - Wilfred Thesiger torrent

Category: Adults, Adventure, Autobiography & Biographies
Language: English
Keywords: Non-Fiction Requested Road Trip Travel

Written by Wilfred Thesiger
Read by Laurence Kennedy
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger’s stunning account of five years spent crossing the Arabian Peninsula by foot and on camels, with nomadic Bedouin tribesmen as guides. Travelling between 1945 and 1950, the British explorer treks through Yemen, the Empty Quarter, Oman, and parts of the then Trucial States, crossing and re-crossing around 250,000 miles of this most inhospitable terrain. He was the first European ever to set eyes on the dunes and wadis of these deserts.

Faced with constant challenges and trials beneath the punishing sun, his journey is also spiritual and enriching, as it requires the utmost courage, patience, generosity, and humor. In clear and evocative prose, Thesiger documents a journey of unimaginable hardship and startling beauty, as well as a time, place, and people on the cusp of change.