"The Essential T.E. Lawrence" is both an anthology and an autobiography; not only does it contain a wide-ranging selection of Lawrence's writings, it also offers us the story of his life. It begins with the eloquent letters of the young adventurer from Oxford, eagerly expanding his horizons beyond Britain to France and subsequently to the Middle East; it ends with the fatal telegram 30 years later which preceded his last motor-cycle ride from Bovington Camp to Clouds Hill. In between we meet Lawrence as an archaeologist, intelligence officer, soldier-in-the-field, polemicist, diplomat, and Tank Corps or RAF serviceman under the aliases of Ross and, later, Shaw.
- ISBN10 0192829629
- ISBN13 9780192829627
- Publish Date 6 August 1992
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 August 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Imprint Oxford Paperbacks
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 334
- Language English