Travels in Arabia Deserta, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint), by Charles Montagu Doughty
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Excerpt from Travels in Arabia Deserta, Vol. 2Curious questioning of the townspeople. A Moor hakîm had visited Hâyil. He cast out demons. The jins. Superstitious fears of the Arabs. Exorcists. A counterfeit Christian vaccinator cut off in the desert. Advantage of the profession of medicine. Hamûd sends his sick infant son to the Nasrâny hakîm, who cures also Hamûd's wife. Diseases at Hâyil. The great Kasr. The guest-chambers. Hâyil house-building. Wards of the town. Artificers. Visit to S'weyfly. The màkbara has swallowed up the inhabitants. Deaf and dumb man-at-arms of the Emir. Mâjid shooting with ball. English gunpowder. Gulf words heard at Hâyil. Palms and a gum-mastic tree in Ajja. 'The coming of Mohammed foretold in the Enjil.' Hamûd's tolerant urbanity. Another audience. The princely family of Ibn Rashîd. Telâl a slayer of himself. Metaab succeeded him. His nephews, Telâl's sons, conspire to kill him. Metaab dies by their shot. Bunder prince. Mohammed who fled to er-Ridth returns upon assurance of peace. He is again conductor of the Bagdad pilgrims. He comes again to Hâyil with the yearly convoy of temmn for the public kitchen. Bunder rides forth with his brother Bedr and Hamûd to meet him. Mohammed slays (his nephew) Bunder Hamûd's speech to the people. Tragedies in the Castle. Mohammed's speech in the Meshab. He sits down as Muhafuth. Bedr taken and slain. Mohammed slays the slayer. Hamûd's nature. Mohammed the Emir is childless. His moderation and severity. The princely bounty. The Shammar state. Villages and hamlets. The public dues and taxes and expense of government. The Prince's horses sold in India. His forces. Ibn Rashîd's forays. He "weakens" the Aarab. The Shammar principality.When I returned in the afternoon from the ascent of the Sumra I found it was already a matter of talk in the town. The first persons met with approached to ask me, "What have you found there - anything? tell us! certainly you went to see something yonder, and else wherefore had the Nasrany climbed upon those high rocks, and paid pence for an ass?" As I passed by the suk tradesmen beckoned to me from the shops, they too would speak with me of the adventure.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Travels in Arabia Deserta, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint), by Charles Montagu Doughty- Published on: 2015-09-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.02" h x 1.42" w x 5.98" l, 2.06 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 710 pages
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Fundamental study of Northern Arabia in late 19th century By A Customer The most complete study of late 19th century Arab mores available in English. Maps, plates, sketches and glossary.This was the era of Rashidi dominance in the peninsula. Doughty traveled as a Christian, risking his life continually. The biblical cadences of the text are more often than not stirring
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Outstanding! long overdue new edition By Tyrus07 A new edition of this perhaps the most beautifully written book in English is long overdue. Recommend reading a bio of CM Doughty, "God's Fugitive", and Henry Green's essay on CM Doughty and Arabia Deserta. Worth the expense. Henry Green wrote that this is not a book to be read straight through, but in and out from time to time as you are moved to go to it. The prose is complicated and reflects the author's admiration for Edmund Spenser. If you like Spenser, this book is for you. Heck, if you like "Moby Dick", Boswell's biograph of Dr. Johnson, or even The Great Cham of Literature himself, this book is for you. I first came to it from reading Robert Graves' autbio, "Goodbye to All That", and Penguin years ago published "Passages from Arabia Deserta", but that was just enough to begin an acquaintence. You can zip through a short story in a magazine over two shots of espresso while sitting in Starbucks, and that's fine, but I don't find that challenging or even fun, nor do I learn anything much. Might as well read the Sporting News. I might get twenty minutes of entertainment value reading "clean prose". I don't improve my rhetoric skills by reading something that simple. Doughty will "kick you in the pants", but once you start to get his signal, you'll be delighted, I'm sure.
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