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Product Description: Collected here for the first time is a history of images of Oman, one of the most developed and stable countries in the Arab world and among the earliest adherents to Islam. A sultanate, the country sits along the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula...read more
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9781931764278 | Univ of Chicago Pr, March 1, 2012, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Collected here for the first time is a history of images of Oman, one of the most developed and stable countries in the Arab world and among the earliest adherents to Islam.
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9781931764292 | Univ of Chicago Pr, March 1, 2012, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Collected here for the first time is a history of images of Oman, one of the most developed and stable countries in the Arab world and among the earliest adherents to Islam.
In a study of the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq, a noted British travel writer and explorer describes a way of life that lasted for thousands of years, until they were almost completely destroyed by Saddam Hussein, evoking the landscape and its teeming wildlife, profiling the many friends he made among the Marsh Arabs, and providing a record of the last remnants of a people and their culture. Original.
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9780141442082 | Reissue edition (Penguin Classics, January 2, 2008), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In a study of the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq, a noted British travel writer and explorer describes a way of life that lasted for thousands of years, until they were almost completely destroyed by Saddam Hussein, evoking the landscape and its teeming wildlife, profiling the many friends he made among the Marsh Arabs, and providing a record of the last remnants of a people and their culture.
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9780141442075 | Reissue edition (Penguin Classics, January 2, 2008), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: The late British explorer and travel writer recounts his travels in the 'Empty Quarter' of Arabia between 1945 and 1950, and describes the vanishing way of life of the Bedouins.
9780140095142 | Reprint edition (Viking Pr, February 1, 1985), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The author recounts his travels in the Empty Quarter of Arabia between 1945 and 1950, and describes the vanishing way of life of the Bedouins
9780140021257 | Viking Pr, February 1, 1981, cover price $4.95
Product Description: Wild brings together the best writing about men and women fighting for their lives in the wilderness, from Jon Krakauer's article on which he based his bestseller Into the Wild, to Carl R. Raswan's account of surviving raids, droughts, and sandstorms in the desert with the Bedouins, to Joe Kane's description of terrifying adventures on the Amazon...read more
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9781602521339 | Unabridged edition (Findaway World Llc, July 1, 2007), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Wild brings together the best writing about men and women fighting for their lives in the wilderness, from Jon Krakauer's article on which he based his bestseller Into the Wild, to Carl R.
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9781602526334 | Unabridged edition (Findaway World Llc, July 1, 2007), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: The wilderness has inspired some of the past century's most exciting storytellers, including Sir Wilfred Thesiger and Algernon Blackwood.
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9780863563300 | Al Saqi, October 1, 2002, cover price $35.00
More than three hundred full-color and black-and-white photographs representing every area of the globe as well as great moments in history from the Royal Geographic Society are accompanied by interviews and essays by Edmund HIllary, Richard Leakey, Christina Dodwell, and John Hemming, among others. Original.
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9781579652203 | Artisan, September 9, 2002, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: More than three hundred full-color and black-and-white photographs representing every area of the globe as well as great moments in history from the Royal Geographic Society are accompanied by interviews and essays by Edmund HIllary, Richard Leakey, Christina Dodwell, and John Hemming, among others.
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9780393050868 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 2002, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A tour in pictures of the award-winning photographer's career contains selections from his journeys to sites on the farthest edges of civilizations, depicting such subjects as the Danakil, the Northern Darfur Muslim tribes, and Nuba wrestlers.
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9780786709519 | Running Pr Book Pub, January 27, 2002, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The author rounds up first-hand accounts of adventure and exploration from six continents, including the Lewis and Clark expedition, Shackleton's trip home from Antarctica, and Livingstone's last days in Africa.
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9780006551003 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, April 1, 2000, cover price $17.99
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9780500974919 | Thames & Hudson, February 1, 2000, cover price $45.00
Product Description: Book by Thesiger, Wilfred (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781860630286 | Motivate Pub Ltd, October 1, 1999, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Book by Thesiger, Wilfred
Product Description: This is an account of the two journeys Thesiger made into the Danakil country (in Abyssinia) in 1933-4 at the age of 24. In a number of ways these journeys were the most influential of his life, laying the foundations of the man considered by some to be the greatest living explorer...read more
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9780002557108 | Harpercollins Canada, November 1, 1996, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: This is an account of the two journeys Thesiger made into the Danakil country (in Abyssinia) in 1933-4 at the age of 24.
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9780525930778 | E P Dutton, March 1, 1980, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Recounting his extensive travels throughout Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, Thesiger weaves fascinating descriptions of life in the Islamic world and of the people's strange customs, innate loyalty, and fierce tenacity
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