Libyan Sands (Paperback)

R.A. Bagnold

ISBN 10: 1906011338 / ISBN 13: 9781906011338

Editore: Eland Publishing Ltd, London, 2010

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Paperback. Ralph Bagnold was among a group of eccentric British and Empire explorers who took advantage of the lack of manned borders in the 1930s to explore the deserts of North Africa using battered Model T Fords. This book describes his journeys into the region known as the Western Desert of Egypt or the Libyan Sahara. He is a central character in the group of explorers who would be later fictionalised in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient. Libyan Sands is unmistakably the world of an Englishman, a modest, machine and desert loving young officer whose passionate amateur enthusiasm led to ground-breaking exploration of the Egyptian western desert and the Libyan Sahara on the eve of the Second World War. A work of an Englishman, a desert-loving young officer whose passionate amateur enthusiasm led to the exploration of the Egyptian western desert and the Libyan Sahara on the eve of the second world war. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: Libyan Sands (Paperback)
• Editore: Eland Publishing Ltd, London
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1906011338
• ISBN 13: 9781906011338
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: new

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Riassunto

Ralph Bagnold was among a group of eccentric British explorers who in the 1930's explored the deserts of North Africa using Model T Fords. This book describes his journeys into the region known as the Western Desert of Egypt or the Libyan Sahara. He is a central character in the group of explorers who would be later fictionalized in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient. Libyan Sands is an exploration of the Egyptian western desert and the Libyan Sahara on the eve of the Second World War.

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A classic work of Sahara exploration, first published in 1935, this is the history behind The English Patient. Bagnold was one of a group of eccentric British and Empire explorers whose passionate, amateur enthusiasm led to groundbreaking exploration of the Egyptian western desert and the Libyan Sahara on the eve of the Second World War. --Country Life, 15 December 2010

In 1935, army officer Ralph Bagnold wrote his account of the explorations that he and his colleagues made into the Libyan Desert. Because of its extent and aridity, this desert, the size of India, had been little explored until this was made possible by the motor car ... It s entirely appropriate that a new generation of readers will benefit from this new edition of one of the classics of exploration. --Geographical Magazine, January 2011

...This classic account of their exploits, re-issued by Eland, is captivating. Beginning with naïve skids, they are soon venturing to the Pyramids and risking life and limb to glimpse little-known Petra. They graduate to daredevil expeditions, trundling thousands of miles into the dead world of East Africa, and changing desert exploration forever. --Wanderlust, January 2011