Word: hassanein
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. A small caravan led by A. M. Hassanein Bey, F.R.G.S., set out from Sellum on the Mediterranean in 1923, began to crawl in the sun's eye across the Libyan Desert. Seven months later, Explorer Hassanein reached El Fasher in the Sudan, having covered 2,200 miles of little-known terrain, discovered two important oases, mapped a new route from Egypt to equatorial Africa, collected a large amount of orographic geological material. He has written the narrative of that expedition...
...sleepers for their kindly warmth; drought, fever, storms by day and night; a sheik with yellow eyes who would have annihilated the caravan in the belief that the cameras were chests of golden nuggets. Once a quarrel broke out between the Egyptian and the Bedouin members of the company. Hassanein arbitrated, reflected with a deep thankfulness upon the danger he had thus avoided. "For the Bedouins would probably have killed Ahmed and Abdullahi out of hand," reflected this scholar and gentleman. "Then what could I have done, as an Egyptian, but avenge the killing of my countrymen at whatever cost...
...Significance. Only a man who was at once a Muhammadan, a scientist and a leader of great tact, courage and obstinacy could have consummated this expedition. Ahmed Hassanein was awarded the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society. In this book, which is purged of science, he writes of long fatigues and desperate adventure like a University Fellow .discussing such fantasies over the afternoon crumpet, yet this reticence gives the tale an objective ambiguity, as if the type of all desert wanderers, the very ghost of the Golden Horde, rode with Hassanein's thin company along the last frontiers...
...Author. Ahmed Hassanein Bey, a very great gentleman in Egypt, was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, won fame as a fencer in the University. He served in the Ministry of the Interior at Cairo, is now in the diplomatic service. King Fuad I is his friend...
...LOST OASES?A. M. Hassanein Bey Century...