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Wood, Levison, 1982- -- Travel -- Arabian Peninsula.
Wood, Levison, 1982- -- Travel -- Middle East.
Arabian Peninsula -- Description and travel.
Middle East -- Description and travel.
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An Arabian journey : one man's quest through the heart of the Middle East / Levison Wood.
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Wood, Levison, 1982- author.
New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2019.
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Wood, Levison, 1982- -- Travel -- Arabian Peninsula.
Wood, Levison, 1982- -- Travel -- Middle East.
Arabian Peninsula -- Description and travel.
Middle East -- Description and travel.
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9780802147325 (hardcover alkaline paper) :
0802147321 (hardcover alkaline paper) :
Description:
x, 354 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Contents:
The edge of Arabia -- The call to prayer -- Yalla -- Kurdistan -- Jihad : this is war -- Holy destruction -- The land between the two rivers -- Searching for treasure -- Cities of gold -- Ghosts and echoes -- Rubʻ al-Khali -- The mountains of Dhofar -- Into the forgotten land -- Pirate waters -- Footsteps in East Africa -- The secret kingdom -- Pillars of wisdom : the Hejaz -- A paradise of sand -- The holy land -- The road north -- Running the gauntlet -- The final battle -- Land of milk and honey -- Where it all began.
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Following in the footsteps of famed explorers such as Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer Levison Wood brings us along on his most complex expedition yet: a circumnavigation of the Arabian Peninsula. Starting in September 2017 in a city in Northern Syria, a stone's throw away from Turkey and amidst the deadliest war of the twenty-first century, Wood set forth on a 5,000-mile trek through the most contested region on the planet. He moved through the Middle East for six months, from ISIS-occupied Iraq through Kuwait and along the jagged coastlines of the Emirates and Oman; across a civil-war-torn Yemen and on to Saudia Arabia, Jordan, and Israel, before ending on the shores of the Mediterranean in Lebanon. Like his predecessors, Wood travelled through some of the harshest and most beautiful environments on earth, seeking to challenge our perceptions of this often-misunderstood part of the world. Through the relationships he forges along the way--and the personal histories and local mythologies that his companions share--Wood examines how the region has changed over thousands of years and reveals a side of the Middle East we don't often see in the media. At once a thrilling personal journey and a skillful piece of cultural reportage, Arabia is a breathtaking chronicle of an epic journey through the land at the root of all civilization.
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