![]() ![]() So if you go by sailboat today, it's not for practical reasons. ![]() In the early 1800s, sailboats were the most practical method so people went by sailboat. It's the same reason people generally fly across the oceans now instead of going by sailboat. In 1946 he was trying to accomplish a task the best way possible. It would have not been the most effective means of transport and therefore the reason to choose camels would have been for other non-practical reasons - like publicity or because it was more challenging. The Empty Quarter 1948, Wilfred Thesiger. During his previous journey, Thesiger had completed a difficult traverse through the desert's eastern sands, starting at Mughshin Oasis in the southeast and crossing over the 'Uruq ash Shaybah to Liwa Oasis. Two weeks ago, I came across a copy of Arabian Sands at the Blenheim. ![]() At that point, he's saying, if he had used camels it would have been a stunt. In December 1947, Wilfred Thesiger returned to Yemen to embark on a second crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). thesiger’s tra vels across the empty quar ter In 1945, when Thesiger is offered a job tracking locust movements across the Arabian Peninsula, he accepts it eagerly as an opportunity to explore. If he had gone in later times (he didn't, it's a hypothetical), when cars became able to do the journey more reliably, he is implying he would have used a car. I think he is saying he went across by camel because that was the best and most practical form of transportation he had available at the time in those conditions. ![]()
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