Heart-Beguiling Araby - Paperback
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Kathryn Tidrick
ISBN-10
1850431361
ISBN-13
9781850431367
Language
English
Publisher
I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd
Publication Date
15/07/1990
Number of Pages
160
About the Author
Kathryn Tidrick is the author of Empire and the English Character: The Illusion of Authority and Gandhi: A Political and Spiritual Life (both published by I.B.Tauris). She was born and grew up in Britain and has a Ph.D. in psychology from London University. She has lived in the United States, Jamaica, Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa and India and now makes Scotland her home.
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Paperback
Editorial Review
'A captivating analysis of the Englishmen whose writings on the inhabitants of the Arabian desert enhanced what the author rightly terms a 'powerful imperial myth'. Her analysis of where reality failed to match up to fantasy is cool and compelling.' - The Economist; 'Entertaining and well written.' - Malise Ruthven, London Review of Books; 'The attraction of the Middle East for the English upper-middle-class is carefully - and amusingly - analysed.' - Richard Trench