Seven Pillars of Wisdom: (Wordsworth Classics Of World Literature)

Wilfred Thesiger charts the time he spent living with the Bedu, including his legendary traverses of the Empty Quarter. His prose and photographs capture the spirit of the proud tribespeople who became his friends and the harsh landscape he inhabited with them in a way very few westeners have.

First published in 1925, this work was the inspiration for the David Lean film Lawrence of Arabia starring Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif. The main creator of his mythic status was American sholar and writer, Lowell Thomas, author of this book, who first met Lawrence in Jerusalem in 1918.

John Mack explores the relationship between Lawrence's inner life and his historically significant actions. Interviews, correspondence, access to War Office dispatches and unpublished letters provide the basis for Macks's investigation of the psychological dimensions of Lawrence's personality.

This volume concerns the life and legend of Lawrence of Arabia.

'The essence of Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man is neither historical nor exotic; it is one of the most subtle and moving narratives of youth's education in life, of the gradual breakdown of an egocentric universe that is happy, innocent and hopeless.' Angus Wilson, The Observer.

Tells the definitive history of the Arab peoples from the seventh century, when the new religion of Islam began to spread from the Arabian Peninsula westwards, to the present day. For this edition, Malise Ruthven continues the history to include such recent events as the crisis in Iraq, the civil war in Algeria and the aftermath of September 11th.

During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries. This book provides an account of his time spent among them. It pays tribute to the hospitality, loyalty, courage and endurance of the people.

This is a collection of Wilfred Thesiger's greatest journeys - in the Empty Quarter of Arabia, the marshes of Iraq, the mountains of the Hindu Kush and Kurdistan, and the Yemen - illustrated with Thesiger's own photographs.