Ahmad Muhammad Hassanein Bey
The Lost Oases — Ahmad Muhammad Hassanein Bey
The Lost Oases — Ahmad Muhammad Hassanein Bey
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Two years later I was back in the same desert, at the same spot where we had lost our way, and landed at the same well that had saved our lives on the previous occasion. The desert calls, but it is not easy to analyze its attraction and its charm. Perhaps the most wonderful part of desert life is the desert night.
20 audio sections · 7 hours 15 minutes
The extraordinary account of Ahmad Muhammad Hassanein Bey’s 1923 expedition across the Libyan Desert, rediscovering the oases of Arkenu and Uweinat and mapping thousands of miles of little-known territory. The journey earned him the Royal Geographical Society’s Founder’s Medal and remains one of the great exploration narratives of the twentieth century.
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Author: Ahmad Muhammad Hassanein Bey
Narrator: Steven Seitel
Language: English
Subjects: Sudan, Libya, Sahara, exploration, travel and geography
Edition: Public-domain text and public-domain LibriVox recording
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My friend Ahmed Hassanein has asked me to write a few words of introduction to his record of a remarkable voyage of exploration. It was the more remarkable because the expedition, the results of which have enabled him to fill up an important gap in our knowledge of Africa and to determine with precision positions only approximately ascertained by that great pioneer in African research, Gerhardt Rohlfs, was conceived and led by him single-handed without other assistance or companionship than that of his guides and personal attendants.
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