ORIENTAL ASSEMBLY
Inbunden bok. Williams and Norgate. 1939. 291 sidor.
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A smart first edition of ‘Oriental Assembly’ by T. E. Lawrence.
• Published four years after Lawrence’s death, Oriental Assembly was arranged by his brother and literary executor, A. W. Lawrence. The book purports to contain “all the hitherto uncollected writings by Lawrence about the East. First, a Diary kept during a journey which Lawrence made on foot through Northern Syria in the summer of 1911, chiefly for the purpose of studying and photographing Crusaders’ castles and of collecting antiquities for the Museum at Oxford… In addition the book contains the full text of the suppressed Introductory Chapter to Seven Pillars of Wisdom.” Two essays one on The Changing East (previously published anonymously) and The Evolution of a Revolt – are also published here. “The second part of the book contains over 100 remarkable and mostly unpublished photographs taken by Lawrence during the Revolt in the Desert.”
• During the First World War, Thomas Edward “T. E.” Lawrence (1888-1935) experienced a transformative odyssey as instigator, organizer, hero, and tragic figure of the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire, which he began as an eccentric junior intelligence officer and ended as "Lawrence of Arabia”. But, as the diary published here indicates, less than a decade before, he trekked alone through the Middle East for a far more esoteric and academic purpose. And, as also indicated here in essays and images, Lawrence’s interest in the Middle East exceeded the deeds, wartime exigencies, and eventual Seven Pillars of Wisdom recounting of his role in the Arab Revolt.
• Containing a frontispiece, and numerous illustrations, as well as 129 photographs taken by the author.
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