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100 1  Hansen, Thorkild,|d1927-1989,|eauthor. 
245 10 Arabia Felix :|bthe Danish expedition, 1761-1767 /
       |cThorkild Hansen ; translated from the Danish by James 
       McFarlane and Kathleen McFarlane ; introduction by Colin 
       Thubron. 
264  1 New York :|bNew York Review Books,|c[2017] 
300    xii, 381 pages :|billustrations ;|c21 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1964. 
520 2  "A riveting account of a landmark expedition that left 
       only one survivor, now back in print for the first time in
       decades. Arabia Felix is the spellbinding true story of a 
       scientific expedition gone disastrously astray. On a 
       winter morning in 1761 six men leave Copenhagen by sea--a 
       botanist, a philologist, an astronomer, a doctor, an 
       artist, and their manservant--an ill-assorted band of men 
       who dislike and distrust one another from the start. These
       are the members of the first Danish expedition to Arabia 
       Felix, as Yemen was then known, the first organized foray 
       into a corner of the world unknown to Europeans, an 
       enterprise that had the support of the Danish Crown and 
       was keenly followed throughout Europe. The expedition made
       its way to Turkey and Egypt, by which time its members 
       were already actively seeking to undercut and even kill 
       one another, before disappearing into the harsh desert 
       that was their destination. Nearly seven years later a 
       single survivor returned to Denmark to find himself a 
       forgotten man and all the specimens that had been sent 
       back ruined by neglect. Based on diaries, notebooks, and 
       sketches that lay unread in Danish archives until the 
       twentieth century, Arabia Felix is both a comedy of 
       intellectual rivalry and very bad manners and an utterly 
       absorbing tale of high adventure. Arabia Felix includes 33
       line drawings and maps"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Niebuhr, Carsten,|d1733-1815|xTravel|zArabian Peninsula. 
600 10 Niebuhr, Carsten,|d1733-1815|xTravel|zYemen (Republic) 
650  0 Danes|xTravel|zArabian Peninsula|xHistory|y18th century. 
650  0 Danes|xTravel|zYemen (Republic)|xHistory|y18th century. 
650  0 Scientific expeditions|zArabian Peninsula|xHistory|y18th 
       century. 
650  0 Scientific expeditions|zYemen (Republic)|xHistory|y18th 
       century. 
651  0 Arabian Peninsula|xDescription and travel. 
651  0 Yemen (Republic)|xDescription and travel. 
730 0  Lykkelige Arabien.|lEnglish. 
830  0 New York Review Books classics.