August Book Club: Arabian Sands | by Wilfred Thesiger
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📚Join us for our monthly Environmental Book Club discussion night! Meetings are held at 7:00 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday of every month, except December.
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📅AUGUST 25 | Arabian Sands | by Wilfred Thesiger
"Following worthily in the tradition of Burton, Lawrence, Philby and Thomas, [Arabian Sands] is, very likely, the book about Arabia to end all books about Arabia." —The Daily Telegraph
Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life—"the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets." In the spirit of T. E. Lawrence, he set out to explore the deserts of Arabia, traveling among peoples who had never seen a European and considered it their duty to K*ll Christian infidels. His now-classic account is invaluable to understanding the modern Middle East.
🔗More info at riveraction.org/bookclub
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Missed August's Book Club? Check out September's Pick: The Language of Butterflies: How Thieves, Hoarders, Scientists, and Other Obsessives Unlocked the Secrets of the World’s Favorite Insect | by Wendy Williams
For more information, visit riveraction.org/bookclub or email [email protected].
📅AUGUST 25 | Arabian Sands | by Wilfred Thesiger
"Following worthily in the tradition of Burton, Lawrence, Philby and Thomas, [Arabian Sands] is, very likely, the book about Arabia to end all books about Arabia." —The Daily Telegraph
Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life—"the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets." In the spirit of T. E. Lawrence, he set out to explore the deserts of Arabia, traveling among peoples who had never seen a European and considered it their duty to K*ll Christian infidels. His now-classic account is invaluable to understanding the modern Middle East.
🔗More info at riveraction.org/bookclub
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Missed August's Book Club? Check out September's Pick: The Language of Butterflies: How Thieves, Hoarders, Scientists, and Other Obsessives Unlocked the Secrets of the World’s Favorite Insect | by Wendy Williams
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