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...been debased by all English writers since Edmund Spenser. In his own monumental writing Charles Montagu Doughty succeeded. But grateful readers and writers of the English tongue did not crowd around to give Restorer Doughty thanks. Few of them have even read his most famed book, Travels in Arabia Deserta...
Said the London Times last fortnight in its Literary Supplement: "A book so real, austere, singular, rugged and wild as the world it depicts, as though hewn from the basalt rock, such monumental sculpture as Travels in Arabia Deserta cannot be forever ignored. Yet it needed a world war to awaken the English people to their possession of a treasure which may stand an age and beyond like Stonehenge. . . . He could make no compromise with the English he called 'Victorian and Costermongery.' Forty years ago he wrote to Doctor Hogarth: 'My main intention was not so much...
After the completion of Arabia Deserta, Doughty went on to write what he considered his real life work - a series of epics (The Dawn in Britain, The Clouds, The Titans, Mansoul). In 1926 Doughty died...
Sample Doughty prose (opening sentences of Arabia Deserta...
TRAVELS IN ARABIA DESERTA, 2 vols.- Charles M. Doughty-Random House ($15). Beautifully produced, unabridged edition of the travel classic, with the 5,000-word introduction by T. E. Lawrence...