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Arabian Sands
Wilfred Thesiger ISBN 9780713910483
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Wilfred Thesiger ISBN 9780713910483
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This book by Wilfred Thesiger came up once on Tim Ferriss in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Derek Sivers. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Story of five years of travel with the nomad Arabs in the unknown deserts of Southern Arabia.
“somebody said oh you need to read Arabian Sands by this man named Thesiger and that gets into like the Arab bedu culture written in the 1940s or 50s”— Derek Sivers
The guest here is Derek Sivers: Musician-turned-entrepreneur who founded CD Baby (the largest independent music seller online), former TED speaker, and author of five books including How to Live and Useful Not True; now a writer and philosophical thinker living in New Zealand. Derek Sivers explains why deliberately reversing his strongest prejudices made the past year the happiest of his life.
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