Arabia Deserta
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A book so real, austere, singular, rugged and wild as the world it depicts, as though hewn from the basalt rock, such monumental sculpture as Travels in Arabia Deserta cannot be forever ignored.
From Time Magazine Archive
Few of them have even read his most famed book, Travels in Arabia Deserta.
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Arabia Deserta was first published in 1888 by the Cambridge Press in a limited edition, priced at ten guineas.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Asiatic portion is called Arabia Deserta; the African tract has received the name of Sahara; while between these two, in the neighborhood of Egypt, the barren region is called simply the desert.
From Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott
Their bottoms, becoming more and more level as they near the sea, are enriched by gushing founts, and are unrivalled for fertility, while the high and stony intervening ridges are barren as Arabia Deserta.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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