Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 328William Blackwood, 1980 |
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Page 254
... wrote in 1932 : ' The virgin Rub ' al Khali , the Great Southern Desert ! To have laboured in Arabia is to have tasted inevitably of her seduction . . ' In 1926 Thesiger's old friend , R. E. Cheesman , gave a less emotional account of ...
... wrote in 1932 : ' The virgin Rub ' al Khali , the Great Southern Desert ! To have laboured in Arabia is to have tasted inevitably of her seduction . . ' In 1926 Thesiger's old friend , R. E. Cheesman , gave a less emotional account of ...
Page 259
... wrote his first book , Arabian Sands , having been persuaded to do so by Graham Watson of the literary agents Curtis Brown , and the publisher Mark Longman . The book has been widely acknow- ledged as a classic in the literature of ...
... wrote his first book , Arabian Sands , having been persuaded to do so by Graham Watson of the literary agents Curtis Brown , and the publisher Mark Longman . The book has been widely acknow- ledged as a classic in the literature of ...
Page 276
... wrote that ' Nothing can equal the profound , the unmeasurable , the awful dulness of this place , in the which I lie dead and buried , in hopes of a joyful resurrection in the year 1796 ' . · The Netheravon curacy was a depressing ...
... wrote that ' Nothing can equal the profound , the unmeasurable , the awful dulness of this place , in the which I lie dead and buried , in hopes of a joyful resurrection in the year 1796 ' . · The Netheravon curacy was a depressing ...
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