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Revolt in the desert te lawrence 19275/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The Oman Library’s copy is a 1939 edition with minor corrections assembled by T.E.’s younger brother Arnold Walter Lawrence. The third text is a copy of Secret Despatches from Arabia, the contents of which were primarily extracted from letters from Lawrence that were first published in The Arab Bulletin, an intelligence publication that operated in Cairo during the latter years of the First World War. Of that first printing we have a copy replete with several beautiful illustrations. Seven Pillars builds off of Lawrence’s earlier abridged version of the same material, Revolt in the Desert, which was first printed in the United States in 1927. Seven Pillars is Lawrence’s full tale of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Turks in the First World War, and this copy is filled with striking depictions and images (mostly in pastel or pencil) of various important figures of the revolt as well as four beautifully detailed maps of Lawrence’s travels across the region. His magnum opus, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, is perhaps one of our most prized items at the Oman Library-a tenth edition copy printed in 1937. ![]() Our collection features three works written by T.E. Secret Despatches from Arabia, by Thomas Edward Lawrence, 1939 Revolt in the Desert, by Thomas Edward Lawrence, 1927 Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph, by Thomas Edward Lawrence, 1937 ![]()
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