``Following worthily in the tradition of Burton, Lawrence, Philby and Thomas, Arabian Sands ] is, very likely, the book about Arabia to end all books about Arabia.`` -- The Daily Telegraph Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger\'s record of his extraordinary journey through the parched ``Empty Quarter`` of Arabia.
Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life--``the machines, the calling cards, the meticulousl. ``Following worthily in the tradition of Burton, Lawrence, Philby and Thomas, Arabian Sands ] is, very likely, the book about Arabia to end all books about Arabia.`` -- The Daily Telegraph Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger\'s record of his extraordinary journey through the parched ``Empty Quarter`` of Arabia
