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100 1  Wood, Levison,|d1982-|eauthor. 
245 13 An Arabian journey :|bone man's quest through the heart of
       the Middle East /|cLevison Wood. 
250    First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bAtlantic Monthly Press,|c2019. 
300    x, 354 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    Includes index. 
505 0  The edge of Arabia -- The call to prayer -- Yalla -- 
       Kurdistan -- Jihad : this is war -- Holy destruction -- 
       The land between the two rivers -- Searching for treasure 
       -- Cities of gold -- Ghosts and echoes -- Rubʻ al-Khali --
       The mountains of Dhofar -- Into the forgotten land -- 
       Pirate waters -- Footsteps in East Africa -- The secret 
       kingdom -- Pillars of wisdom : the Hejaz -- A paradise of 
       sand -- The holy land -- The road north -- Running the 
       gauntlet -- The final battle -- Land of milk and honey -- 
       Where it all began. 
520    Following in the footsteps of famed explorers such as 
       Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer 
       Levison Wood brings us along on his most complex 
       expedition yet: a circumnavigation of the Arabian 
       Peninsula. Starting in September 2017 in a city in 
       Northern Syria, a stone's throw away from Turkey and 
       amidst the deadliest war of the twenty-first century, Wood
       set forth on a 5,000-mile trek through the most contested 
       region on the planet. He moved through the Middle East for
       six months, from ISIS-occupied Iraq through Kuwait and 
       along the jagged coastlines of the Emirates and Oman; 
       across a civil-war-torn Yemen and on to Saudia Arabia, 
       Jordan, and Israel, before ending on the shores of the 
       Mediterranean in Lebanon. Like his predecessors, Wood 
       travelled through some of the harshest and most beautiful 
       environments on earth, seeking to challenge our 
       perceptions of this often-misunderstood part of the world.
       Through the relationships he forges along the way--and the
       personal histories and local mythologies that his 
       companions share--Wood examines how the region has changed
       over thousands of years and reveals a side of the Middle 
       East we don't often see in the media. At once a thrilling 
       personal journey and a skillful piece of cultural 
       reportage, Arabia is a breathtaking chronicle of an epic 
       journey through the land at the root of all civilization. 
600 10 Wood, Levison,|d1982-|xTravel|zArabian Peninsula. 
600 10 Wood, Levison,|d1982-|xTravel|zMiddle East. 
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650  7 Travel.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01155558 
651  0 Arabian Peninsula|xDescription and travel. 
651  0 Middle East|xDescription and travel. 
651  7 Arabian Peninsula.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01240131 
651  7 Middle East.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01241586 
655  7 Travel writing.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919983 
655  7 Travel writing.|2lcgft 
776 08 |iOnline version:|aWood, Levison, 1982- author.|tArabian 
       journey|bFirst Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.|dNew York,
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