1927 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA REVOLT IN DESERT AGAINST TURKEY MAPS AND PRINTS GIFT MAP [Hardcover] T.E. LAWRENCE [Hardcover] T.E. Lawrence

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“The race of heroes is not dead. Every now and again appears a book, a poem or a character that flashes across our horizon like a blinding light to prove that men made in our image still possess superhuman, almost divine, energy and, by fortunate meetings of gifts and circumstances, can work miracles. Then we have the legend of an Odysseus, a Roland, a Drake or a Lawrence, and human annals become enriched with the gestes of another of their heroes: and if it have vitality enough the legend persists forever.

This book of Lawrence’s, it is possible, may enjoy such a perennial longevity. It is a great epic of deeds. Lawrence himself is already a legend. But seldom does the hero of a legend write his own account of his acts and deeds. More seldom still does his legend survive the writing. But Lawrence triumphs over everything. It is as though this spare little man, pronounced physically unfit for military duty, were destined to outshine in the memories of men great captains and generals, giants and paladins.”
?From the review of the original edition of Revolt in the Desert in The New York Times Book Review, March 20, 1927.

Thomas Edward Lawrence was born in Wales in 1888 and died in England in May 1935, from injuries suffered in a motorcycle crash. Oxonian, archaeologist, intelligence officer, writer, and soldier, he became famous for his military exploits in Arabia during World War I, detailed in his books Seven Pillars of Wisdom and Revolt in the Desert.

“T. E. Lawrence has fully as much literary as military genius. He shows himself to be one of the great writers, and the question comes into one’s mind if he be not the only one of the great writers of the world who was also a great man of action.”
?Literary Review

“Not a dull or empty sentence from end to end.”
?George Bernard Shaw

“The story of such an adventure as no other man in our own times has had: there is wit, truth, beauty and complete simplicity in the telling of the tale.”
?New Republic