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An Arabian Journey: One Man's Quest Through the Heart of the Middle East

An Arabian Journey: One Man's Quest Through the Heart of the Middle East

Wood, Levison

Paperback

Travel WritingGeneral Middle EastIran History

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0802148859
ISBN13: 9780802148858
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: Dec 3 2019
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
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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