Remarkable. I love this book. Someone I knew wrote a blog the night after she'd visited Petra. She mentioned visiting Wadi Rum. I remembered the name from Seven Pillars of Wisdom, so I looked it up. Auda of the Howeitat is mentioned! I shared a few passages with my friend who shared it with her group. Just those few pages it all came to life again. I can't afford a Subscriber's Edition, though I'd love to have one (to go along with my CIA edition of Dr Zhivago.) On Audible I with a subscription they offer an excellent (so far) free version of the book. 26 hours. Find an excuse to drive coast to coast or hike half of Scotland and listen.
I also came to the book because I’m a fan of the film. I would like to mention here that there are no fictions in the film, every scene is true to the book, but the story is greatly simplified in the film, how else to reduce such a long story to only a 4 hour film? The magic descriptions of the desert scenery reminded me very much of Tolkien’s descriptions of the journeys in LOTR. Also, the use of language is very similar (they were the same generation). One other thing I would say to recommend this book, and that is his description of the various ethnic groups, cultures and religions starting around Mecca and going up through what is now Gaza, Palestine, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon up to the Turkish border. There were, at that time dozens of different ethnic/religious groups in this area. When you see the troubles that have since happened here, it’s very useful to know how it once used to be. The old town of Jeddah, with its intricately carved wooden houses, all gone. The nomadic tribes: All driving Mercedes trucks around the desert and living in palaces. Aleppo bombed out. The list of lost worlds is very long. I mourn for a world which existed for centuries/millennia and is now covered in super-highways or fenced off communities for the rich.
Islam jihadist extremists retranslated a LOT of books to poison them into being propaganda. The seven pillars is however so well known the propagandized prints are easily found out.
Remarkable. I love this book. Someone I knew wrote a blog the night after she'd visited Petra. She mentioned visiting Wadi Rum. I remembered the name from Seven Pillars of Wisdom, so I looked it up. Auda of the Howeitat is mentioned! I shared a few passages with my friend who shared it with her group. Just those few pages it all came to life again.
I can't afford a Subscriber's Edition, though I'd love to have one (to go along with my CIA edition of Dr Zhivago.) On Audible I with a subscription they offer an excellent (so far) free version of the book. 26 hours. Find an excuse to drive coast to coast or hike half of Scotland and listen.
I've got a copy of the 1935 edition. Brilliant book.
I do as well .... do you know the value?
@@jamesalexander5623....Yes....
....Priceless
I also came to the book because I’m a fan of the film. I would like to mention here that there are no fictions in the film, every scene is true to the book, but the story is greatly simplified in the film, how else to reduce such a long story to only a 4 hour film? The magic descriptions of the desert scenery reminded me very much of Tolkien’s descriptions of the journeys in LOTR. Also, the use of language is very similar (they were the same generation). One other thing I would say to recommend this book, and that is his description of the various ethnic groups, cultures and religions starting around Mecca and going up through what is now Gaza, Palestine, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon up to the Turkish border. There were, at that time dozens of different ethnic/religious groups in this area. When you see the troubles that have since happened here, it’s very useful to know how it once used to be. The old town of Jeddah, with its intricately carved wooden houses, all gone. The nomadic tribes: All driving Mercedes trucks around the desert and living in palaces. Aleppo bombed out. The list of lost worlds is very long. I mourn for a world which existed for centuries/millennia and is now covered in super-highways or fenced off communities for the rich.
Why did i see a copy signed by Lawrence going for 34,000$ or so
Amazing book. Lawrence wrote beautifully, excellent prose.
This would easily fetch $500,000 or more at auction.
80k
this is one of true copies , because lots of Arabs translate that book with lots of lies and fake history .
Islam jihadist extremists retranslated a LOT of books to poison them into being propaganda. The seven pillars is however so well known the propagandized prints are easily found out.