Michael Dirda
For years, I meant to read 'Arabian Sands', Wilfred Thesiger's account of two punishing camel journeys during the late 1940s across Southern Arabia's Empty Quarter. Now that I have, I can sheepishly join the chorus of those who revere the book as one of the half dozen greatest works of modern English travel writing.
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Houston, we have a problem...If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?...He fashioned hell for the inquisitive...Strike while the iron is hot...Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard...I'm always like, Well, let's not rest...
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