Passages from Arabia Deserta

“C.M. Doughty spent over a year wandering Northern Arabia gathering material for this extraordinary book.

Eccentric, redolent with sharply observed life, anecdote, local colour and telling detail, Arabia Deserta is not only a Victorian traveller’s interpretation of a mysterious – and largely unfathomed – Orient, but also a daring experiment in the use of language at its richest and most highly wrought.

This Penguin edition is a selection from the original massive work edited by the distinguished Edward Garnett.”