Arabia Phoenix Author:DE_GAURY, Gerald De Gaury First published in 1946 Freya Stark writes in her forward `Gerald de Gaury is an old friend of mine. He knows and loves his desert world and has written this honest record of a journey with the sense of its fugitive quality in time. The trifles of a desert court, the ritual of nomad life, the details of an embassy which reminds us of Ar-Rashid... more » and Charlemagne, will soon be forgotten. Gerald de Gaury sees them with an experienced and loving eye, and, like a collector of butterflies, nets the remote moments for the pleasure of those who will never see them flickering in their own bright air.´« less