How couldst thou take such journeys into fanatic Arabia? - Charles M. Doughty, Passages from Arabia Deserta So C.W.R. Long begins his memoir with a quotation from Doughty and answers it affirmatively and with enduring enthusiasm and affection. He tells his story of over thirty years life and work in the Muslim world. He begins at Cambridge, and his career follows the turns and twists of history through Libya, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, the Sudan, Turkey, the UAE, Qatar and Jordan and, above all, Iraq, a country he continues to regard with the utmost affection, understanding and concern.
- ISBN10 1850436622
- ISBN13 9781850436621
- Publish Date 11 June 2004
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 December 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint I.B. Tauris
- Edition Revised ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 264
- Language English