{"product_id":"travels-in-arabia-deserta-vol-1","title":"Travels in Arabia Deserta, Vol. 1","description":"Two amazon reviews: An excellent  though challenging read  May 27  1999 By A Customer Doughty wrote in a relatively laboured  archaic style which demands patience from the reader. Initially on that account it was hard going for me (and I would image  for most people)  but the book  wherein he presents an account of his solitary travels and tribulations during a period of nearly two years between 1876 and 1878  has long been widely regarded as a classic. It rewards persistence  and I found it quite spell-binding. Doughty was not without an ironic sense of humour as you can see from what he wrote about an Arab he encountered; \"...his strength lay in his stubborn brawns and large breast  and little in his brains which indeed were not very well settled.\" And something of his style as he wrote about pilgrams he fell in with on the way to Mecca: \"... peasants for the most part  as the richer and delicate livers are ever less zealous to seek hallows than poor bodies with small consolation in this world.\" Fantastic freaky style of Charles Doughty  May 29  1998 By A Customer Convinced in the late 1800s that the English language had become hopelessly corrupt  Charles Doughty attempted in Arabia Deserta (and  less successfully  in his epic poems) to graft Victorian English onto Elizabethan syntax. The result was a beautiful  sometimes obscure  entirely original style that had a great deal of influence on the English modernists  particularly Henry Green. I recommend it to anyone with a modicum of patience and taste.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44891303444533,"sku":"ByrdShop_0486238253","price":79.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0486238253_7de90c9b-ab65-438b-a0ab-37eef70b748c.jpg?v=1772695462","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/travels-in-arabia-deserta-vol-1","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}