{"product_id":"explorations-in-doughtys-arabia-deserta-stephen-e-tabachnick-9780820340036","title":"Explorations in Doughty's Arabia Deserta","description":"Charles Montagu Doughty's \u003ci\u003eTravels in Arabia Deserta\u003c\/i\u003e (1888) is remarkable for its scientific evelations and brilliantly unique style--an artful combination of Arabic and English syntax and diction that rendered a foreign way of life and thought and depicted a distant landscape of stark, barren beauty. The ten original essays in this book examine many aspects of \u003ci\u003eArabia Deserta\u003c\/i\u003e, including its Victorian characteristics and aesthetics; its blend of fact and fantasy; its portrayal of Arab society and of Doughty himself; and the accuracy of its geographical, geological, archaeological, historical, and ethnographical observations. Additionally, the book's introduction and two bibliographies probe \u003ci\u003eArabia Deserta\u003c\/i\u003e's reception, unique position in the genre of travel literature, and bibliographical history. During the grueling twenty-one-month journey narrated in \u003ci\u003eArabia Deserta\u003c\/i\u003e, Doughty endured periods of sickness and near-famine, a series of treacherous guides, attack by a mob, and virtual imprisonment by a corrupt Turkish commandant. Celebrating this epic of scholarship and survival, \u003ci\u003eExplorations in Doughty's \"Arabia Deserta\u003c\/i\u003e\" maps the contours of a work that T. E. Lawrence, who had followed Doughty's path to Arabia, called \"a book not like other books, but something particular, a bible of its kind.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen E. Tabachnick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820340030\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820340036\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/28\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d","brand":"Stephen E. Tabachnick","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48216512495871,"sku":"9780820340036","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d55809b6-c03a-41b1-b64a-09b857e0557b.jpg?v=1771991495","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/explorations-in-doughtys-arabia-deserta-stephen-e-tabachnick-9780820340036","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}