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Life a la Henri is one of those books that has a definite physical effect on the reader. C. M. Doughty's famed Arabia Deserta, for example, parches the tongue. Life a la Henri makes the tongue hang out, the mouth water...
Excited book-boomers have compared this unusual biography to James Boswell's Life of Johnson, to Herman Melvill's Moby Dick, to Charles Montagu Doughty's Arabia Deserta. The Book of Talbot is a biography of a comparatively unknown man written by his widow. Gravely, not to say solemnly told, it is sometimes pompous but never inane. Authoress Clifton's fierce reverence for her subject does at times succeed in making her manner grand...
...flesh and blood, with diverting irony, from the pros and cons of scholiasts. Allah figures in the tale as Mohammed's yes-man. For a more serious and comprehensive study of Allah, Arabia and Islam (though not of Mohammed), read Doughty's tremendous Travels in Arabia Deserta-Boni & Liveright...
TRAVELS IN ARABIA DESERTA-Charles M. Doughty-Boni & Liveright ($10). A whole civilization thoroughly experienced...
...Arabia Deserta was first published in 1888 by the Cambridge Press in a limited edition, priced at ten guineas. Its fame increased for years among a small circle of experts, an abbreviated edition was published, and, during the War, it became a military textbook, used by the British in their operations in the East. This is the first complete, reprinted edition...