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Author of the magisterial “Travels in Arabia Deserta”— which is composed in a dithyrambic, pseudo-biblical prose that either enchants or repulses — Doughty was properly discouraging: “I should dissuade a friend from such a voyage, which is too likely to be most wearisome, hazardous to health & even disappointing.”

Once I was lost every night for months with Doughty in the "Arabia Deserta."

I never felt more anxious—not on any of Philip's dreadful yachting expeditions, nor even when he went on that perilous exploring tour into Arabia Deserta, I do think.

Desirous of traversing Arabia Deserta, with a view of reaching Egypt, the young wanderer now dismissed all his followers with the exception of fifty, who elected to share his dangers.

Doughty's Arabia Deserta is full of poetry.