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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Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Arabia Deserta was first published in 1888 by the Cambridge Press in a limited edition, priced at ten guineas.

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

Its boundaries were to the north, Cœlo Syria; to the west, the Mediterranean Sea; to the east, Arabia Deserta; and to the south and south west, Arabia Petrea and Egypt.

From A Week of Instruction and Amusement, or, Mrs. Harley's birthday present to her daughter : interspersed with short stories, outlines of sacred and prophane history, geography &c. by Unknown

I never felt more anxious—not on any of Philip's dreadful yachting expeditions, nor even when he went on that perilous exploring tour into Arabia Deserta, I do think.

From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida