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Evans MBE, Mark

 
9781908531605: Crossing the Empty Quarter: In the Footsteps of Bertram Thomas [Idioma Inglés]
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ISBN 10: 1908531606 ISBN 13: 9781908531605
Editorial: Nomad Publishing, 2016

Sinopsis

Arabia's vast Rub Al Khali desert is one of the world's most extreme and inhospitable environments, and in 1930 the race was on to become the first European to cross what is the biggest sand desert on earth. The potential hardship was not to deter Bertram Thomas, the intrepid British explorer who set out to travel from south to north in the winter of 1930-3, guided by Omani Sheikh Saleh Bin Kalut al Rashidi al Kathiri. Challenged by the unknown, they walked for nearly 1,300 kilometres from Salalah on the coast of Oman, through the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to Doha, the capital of Qatar; it was to be the first recorded crossing, dashing the hopes of Ibn Philby. Now, some 85 years later, leading British explorer Mark Evans has taken on the challenge again, accompanied by an equally intrepid Omani team and crossing the same stretch of desert. Pulling together extensive archive material with contemporary photography Evans presents a dramatic and highly readable account of those 49 days traversing the famous sand sea on foot and by camel - exploration in the grand tradition of the pioneers.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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Mark Evans, 54, has lived in the region for twenty years. A fellow of the Explorers' Club of New York and The Royal Geographical Society in London, in 2009 Mark set up Outward Bound Oman.Over a period of 55 days in 2001 he kayaked the entire 1,700 km coastline of Oman, from Musandam to Yemen, and in 2004 he set up the University of the Desert, which is Oman's gift to UNESCO, using the power of the desert environment to foster intercultural dialogue between young people from western and Arab cultures, for which he was awarded the MBE in 2011.

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Editorial
Nomad Publishing
Año de publicación
2016
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1908531606
ISBN 13 
9781908531605
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
196
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