Doughty, Charles Montagu

Doughty, Charles Montagu

▪ British traveler
born Aug. 19, 1843, Theberton Hall, Leiston, Suffolk, Eng.
died Jan. 20, 1926, Sissinghurst, Kent

      British traveller, widely regarded as one of the greatest of all Western travellers in Arabia.

      After attending London and Cambridge universities, he travelled widely in Europe, Egypt, the Holy Land, and Syria. He began his journey to northwestern Arabia at Damascus in 1876 and proceeded southward with pilgrims headed for Mecca as far as Madāʾin Ṣāliḥ. There he studied monuments and inscriptions left by the ancient Nabataean civilization. His observations were published by Ernest Renan. On the latter part of his journey, however, which included visits to Taymāʾ, Ḥāʾil, ʿUnayzah, at-Tāʾif, and Jidda, he made his most important geographical, geological, and anthropological observations.

      In 1888 he published Travels in Arabia Deserta, which won little recognition at the time, though it eventually came to be regarded as a masterpiece of travel writing. In it he was more concerned with producing a monument of what he considered to be pure English prose than with recording information. The Elizabethan style in which it is cast succeeds in conveying the feeling of his remote and lonely wandering. Doughty himself, however, attached more importance to his epic and dramatic poetry. These works include The Dawn in Britain, 6 vol. (1906), The Clouds (1912), and Mansoul (1920).

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