Then follow endless journeys and lightning attacks on camels, physical pain at the limit of the tolerable, and daily arguments to try to unite the tribes of the desert accustomed to quarreling endlessly.įar from being a straightforward account of the Arabs' advance from the Hedjaz to Aqaba, then to Damascus, the seven pillars of wisdom are, according to the chapters, a reflection on the strategy and geography and the peoples of the Middle East: Orient or a half-whispered confession from its author. To realize his vision, he searches for a charismatic Bedouin leader whom he will find in the person of Faisal, one of the sons of Sharif Hussein of Mecca.
In the middle of the First World War, this English officer imagined a massive Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire, which would relieve the other French and Russian fronts.
How to describe this monumental autobiographical epic of nearly 700 pages, which tells us about the peregrinations of Thomas Edward Lawrence, better known under the name of Lawrence of Arabia?
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