- 12 Dec, 2025 *
I went to great pains to find the first edition of Travels in Arabia Deserta in a used bookstore. Along with Moby Dick, this was a highly suggested read by Cormac McCarthy. Being one of my favorite authors, if McCarthy praises something, I will sure go read it. So I found the 1923 edition. Nothing like the smell of a century old hardcover.
Happy with my acquisition, I started reading and recreating in my mind the lost time of Arabia in late nineteenth century, viewed through th…
- 12 Dec, 2025 *
I went to great pains to find the first edition of Travels in Arabia Deserta in a used bookstore. Along with Moby Dick, this was a highly suggested read by Cormac McCarthy. Being one of my favorite authors, if McCarthy praises something, I will sure go read it. So I found the 1923 edition. Nothing like the smell of a century old hardcover.
Happy with my acquisition, I started reading and recreating in my mind the lost time of Arabia in late nineteenth century, viewed through the eyes of a very smart british man. A time and society which is entirely lost, if not thanks to works like this. Because the book is not the best condition, and being afraid I would damage it even further as I advanced in my readings, I eventually decided to read it part via microcapsules moving electric fields, part via dead processed trees. So this has been one of my favorite applications so far of my BOOX Palma 2. Reading the Arabia in tiny fonts in KOReader.
The pleasant surprise with KOReader is that I don’t need to tell it that it should remove margins while reading a PDF. It does it automatically. Nice.
Onwards with Doughty’s journey.