The Empty Quarter 1967

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  • Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
  • Wilfred Thesiger - Legendary Desert Explorer;
    Crossing the Rub Al Khali
    Directed by Richard Taylor for BBC TV 1967

Комментарии • 75

  • @abudhabidel1
    @abudhabidel1 Год назад +10

    Amazing - I've never seen that before - thanks Richard. I found it quite emotional . I worked as a land surveyor in Saudi Arabia from 1976 for four years. We lived in tents - all over the Kingdom - we drank coffee with Bedouins - sat in their camps - looked warily at their guns... - I too fell in love with the desert.

  • @george1la
    @george1la 29 дней назад

    This second run is also great. He was there when it still was the way it always was. I am buying that book. It should be great.

  • @koshin88
    @koshin88 4 года назад +5

    this documentary deserves to be restored to ultra hd version.

  • @Dr-ub8ry
    @Dr-ub8ry 5 лет назад +10

    Thank you.
    I wanted to learn about desert : sitting in the comforts of arm chair.
    Honestly, i wanted to know why great prophets came from deserts. This documentary revealed a great man to me. He is truely great. Life is not cosmopolitan: it is desert.
    Thanks.

    • @hansolowe19
      @hansolowe19 2 года назад

      This reads
      almost like a
      poem.

  • @richardwyse7817
    @richardwyse7817 7 лет назад +18

    extraordinary docu from the past....had priveilge of skirting the western end of Rub Al Khali in the 90s....from the comfort of a Land Cruiser....even then could see and was humbled by this great expanse of desert......

  • @geroconnor5222
    @geroconnor5222 Год назад +2

    Beautifully done. Really enjoyed reading Arabian Sands. I visited the Sahara desert a two years in April, since then I can't get the thoughts of it out of my head. Have foolish ideas of going to the Empty Quarter or the deserts of Jordan. Maybe one day!

    • @majedm7988
      @majedm7988 Год назад

      Getting in the empty quarter is a really bad idea

  • @Frankowillo
    @Frankowillo 6 лет назад +31

    I recently read Arabian Sands and now I'm reading The Marsh Arabs. Read them if you can get these books. An incredible man.

    • @abdulrahmanraheem423
      @abdulrahmanraheem423 4 года назад

      So what do you think of The Marsh Arabs? Is it a good book? I want to read it because Wilfred Thesiger's talks alot about those people and I am more interested now?

    • @abdulrahmanraheem423
      @abdulrahmanraheem423 4 года назад

      @Taco Bell Valet Yes i agree! I have met lots of people that call themselves Arabs, however i also met those that live in the desert and they are like night and day. In their language, customs, attitude, and their reverence for God is totally different. I wish i could spend just one summer in the desert with them!

    • @shammarishammari8214
      @shammarishammari8214 Год назад

      @@abdulrahmanraheem423 Winter is nicer. Try to look for my tribe, Shammar. They'll take care of you wherever you find them.

  • @DunmeriDrain
    @DunmeriDrain 3 года назад +5

    A beautiful look into the past. I intend one day to traverse the Empty Quarter, insha Allah.

  • @pendleburyable
    @pendleburyable 7 месяцев назад

    Thankyou Richard,a wonderful journey into the past,…..,we could learn a lot in2024.

  • @roddyteague6246
    @roddyteague6246 Год назад +2

    Mubarak bin Landan-The blessed one of London! He really was one hell of an Englishman. Right up there with Enoch Powell & Winston Churchill.
    Just before he died The Telegraph did a great feature on him including a comment on his battered features. A combination of boxing & bad weather he wryly concluded!

  • @matero30
    @matero30 9 лет назад +11

    Many thanks for uploading this spectacular film. I've wanted to see it for some time, but didn't know where to find it.

  • @fussypeg8561
    @fussypeg8561 Год назад +1

    I read Arabian Sands with great interest having lived in Muscat in 1973. Well, times have changed.

  • @BaldevSChauhan
    @BaldevSChauhan 3 года назад +1

    so beautiful, so haunting ..........!

  • @mallutornado
    @mallutornado 3 года назад +4

    Dubai in 1950 looked better than I imagined

    • @Ichioku
      @Ichioku 3 года назад +2

      That part of old Dubai has been preserved quite well.

  • @hermanpant3716
    @hermanpant3716 7 лет назад +1

    Thank you for this remarkable film.

  • @darthblob10
    @darthblob10 Год назад

    This was really interesting, thank you for posting.

  • @NormAuParadis
    @NormAuParadis Год назад

    Thanks for posting my birthplace is Jeddah.

  • @junebugvintage
    @junebugvintage 2 года назад

    this was awesome, thank you for sharing
    what a life

  • @davidtunnicliffe4759
    @davidtunnicliffe4759 3 года назад +1

    Great to see this. A dear friend, so sadly missed.

  • @phoenicius
    @phoenicius 6 лет назад

    Great video i like to live like this simple life

  • @KatePerry-y5s
    @KatePerry-y5s 2 месяца назад +1

    Fabulous documentary!! Men like Thesiger, put the "Great" into Britain!!!!! No 'elff & safety bollox men like that!!

  • @alycewangari
    @alycewangari 3 года назад +1

    Wow. I have really enjoyed this documentary. So many things to take away from this. I feel as though I have mingled with the spirit of the Bedu. Fascinating. I suppose everyone must make their own journeys and find contentment with their reward if at all it is as much as a drink of clear tasteless water. Thank you for this video.

  • @MegaVeeru1234
    @MegaVeeru1234 7 лет назад +10

    44:16 Old Dubai, it's really amazing

  • @voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885
    @voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 3 года назад +2

    We were as insignificant as John, Paul, George and Ringo I saw laboring across the sands.

    • @LoyalOpposition
      @LoyalOpposition Год назад

      ha... I'd be humming a few of their tunes in the desert myself

  • @robertortiz6749
    @robertortiz6749 2 года назад

    Great upload!

  • @sailordoc2007
    @sailordoc2007 6 лет назад +2

    A treasure .. thanks for the upload !

  • @Eemmee77
    @Eemmee77 9 лет назад

    Thank you

  • @josefowitzer
    @josefowitzer 8 лет назад +2

    thank you! i've given up hope to find this long ago.

  • @rabbitskinner
    @rabbitskinner 6 лет назад +1

    I read Arabian Sands great film thanks so much for the upload..

  • @1Reej
    @1Reej 8 лет назад +1

    Amazing. Thank you.

  • @Truelies0630
    @Truelies0630 5 месяцев назад

    probably the last place on earth you would wanna find yourself stranded

  • @patrickkelly9110
    @patrickkelly9110 8 лет назад +1

    Great

  • @بندرالحارثي-ض1خ
    @بندرالحارثي-ض1خ 3 года назад +3

    اخذو
    رحله صحراوية من ابو ظبى إلى عمان إلى أبو ضبي استكشاف منبع نشاط النفط من وين هاذي هي سياسه الغرب حب الاستكشاف حب استكشاف لما يخدم مصالحهم فقط
    الغرب عنده مقوله وتفكير
    كيف احصل على مصالحي التي تتوفر في البلد الذي أريد أعقد معه صفقه وكيف استقطب سكانه الأصليين واعيشهم عيشه الأثرياء وكيف احاول اغرائهم بما يخلف تقاليدهم وعيشتهم لكي احصل على كل شيء يخدم مصالحي هاذا تفكير الغرب

  • @khajavlogs4u
    @khajavlogs4u Месяц назад

    who is here on Aug 27th 2024

  • @LoyalOpposition
    @LoyalOpposition Год назад

    Thank you for uploading this great document. Any other older book recommendations? Thanks!

  • @ericstone7670
    @ericstone7670 8 лет назад +1

    Very accurate

    • @matero30
      @matero30 8 лет назад +1

      Have you gotten to spend some time in the Empty Quarter?

  • @liquidoxygen819
    @liquidoxygen819 3 года назад +3

    The dancing girl who appears at 10:35 is really quite stunning. Very pretty

  • @mallutornado
    @mallutornado 3 года назад +1

    The producers thanked rulers of UAE and Oman scouts but curious to know why no one from KSA was mentioned

    • @plung3r
      @plung3r Год назад +1

      At that time, the borders were still not defined.

  • @00lys00
    @00lys00 8 лет назад

    Amazing story.

  • @marcosluciosilva2433
    @marcosluciosilva2433 8 лет назад

    eu morreria onde os caras, tranquilos, catam..

  • @hadifmohamed690
    @hadifmohamed690 9 лет назад +1

    do you have any other documentary about the Empty Quarter

  • @marcosluciosilva2433
    @marcosluciosilva2433 8 лет назад

    A GLOBO AINDA NÃO APRENDEU...

  • @marobakrma
    @marobakrma Год назад

    he was not an explorer, he was an intelligent agent
    after he accomplished his mesion with his partner tramp tomas in zinjebar now tanzanya
    after the masker against the Omani rulers , he run out and reached salalah and afraid to be captured by the Omani, crossed the empty quarter north then east to Bahrain then to basra
    he met philpi and helped him to contenue on his secret mesion
    more over he hided his true name to Mubarak bin London like his other colleagues

  • @YoutubeMichael538
    @YoutubeMichael538 2 года назад

    Age 56. WTF. He looks at least 70.

  • @iclassic797
    @iclassic797 8 лет назад +2

    in UNITEA ARAB EMIRATES

  • @sangueneroeblu
    @sangueneroeblu 9 лет назад

    Is there a way i can get subtitles for this? Would like to show it to my students who are not native speakers of English.

  • @derangedayman2451
    @derangedayman2451 2 года назад

    i need subtitles for this
    can someone help

  • @richardwyse7817
    @richardwyse7817 7 лет назад

    najran to Sharorah

  • @papaiswatching
    @papaiswatching 3 года назад

    Always interested to explore the black magic side, occult and Oman's dominance over being occult capital of the deserts

    • @el_alcaldede_nueva_york2701
      @el_alcaldede_nueva_york2701 3 года назад

      Where did you come across this?

    • @papaiswatching
      @papaiswatching 3 года назад

      @@el_alcaldede_nueva_york2701 come across what?

    • @el_alcaldede_nueva_york2701
      @el_alcaldede_nueva_york2701 3 года назад

      @@papaiswatching What you said about Oman

    • @papaiswatching
      @papaiswatching 3 года назад

      @@el_alcaldede_nueva_york2701 search saamri magician one of the feared sorcerer of Middle Eastern antiquity

    • @synczy7307
      @synczy7307 3 года назад +2

      If you do witchcraft then you will have no share in the hereafter