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Arabia Deserta

American  
[dih-zur-tuh] / dɪˈzɜr tə /

noun

  1. an ancient division of Arabia, in the N part between Syria and Mesopotamia.


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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

Few of them have even read his most famed book, Travels in Arabia Deserta.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Desirous of traversing Arabia Deserta, with a view of reaching Egypt, the young wanderer now dismissed all his followers with the exception of fifty, who elected to share his dangers.

From Claimants to Royalty by John M. Ingram

Doughty, in his Arabia Deserta, mentions the same custom amongst the Arabs; Sven Hedin amongst the Tartars.

From Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Hudson Stuck

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