In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an ….

Hunger, thirst, heat and cold: I had tasted them in full.

The harder the life, the finer the person..

For me, exploration was a personal venture. I did not go to the Arabian desert to collect plants nor to make a map; such things were incidental. At h….

I knew instinctively that it was the very hardness of life in the desert which drew me back there - it was the same pull which takes men back to the ….