Across the Empty Quarter

Restless, gripped by an overwhelming wish to make a name for himself in a world ever more hemmed in by progress and ´civilization´, Thesiger (1910-2003) embarked on his amazing journeys across Saudi Arabia´s Empty Quarter to test himself and to show what could still be done. The result was a monument both to his resilience and to the Bedu who guided him and who emerge as the book´s real heroes. "Great Journeys" allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own.