Seven pillars of wisdom book7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() "The heat of Arabia came out like a drawn sword and struck us speechless." No one captures the beauty, the cruelty and immensity of the desert and its tribes as brilliantly as Lawrence. I prefer the 1930s reviewer who said "Lawrence has a novelist's eye for detail, a poet's command of the language, an adventurer's heart, a soldier's great story and his memory and intellect are at least as good as all those". ![]() ![]() Seven Pillars has been called a novel travelling under the cover of autobiography. ![]() The version I reviewed five years ago was so savagely abridged, you only really got the facts, and facts weren't TE's strong suit. More than half the articles in my latest Talking Newspapers Digest are about the Middle East – what better reason to listen to a new unabridged version of this monumental account of the author's leading role in that earlier historic desert campaign, which made him one of the great legendary heroes of all time. Seven Pillars of Wisdom by TE Lawrence, read by Roy McMillan (Naxos, 25hrs unabridged, £65)Īlmost a century after the first Arab spring – the 1916-18 revolt against the Ottoman empire, culminating in the triumphant capture of Damascus – modern Arabia is still a war zone. ![]()
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