2—'The Empty Quarter'
Talk by Wilfred Thesiger
Wilfred Thesiger is the third English-man to have crossed the Rub El Khali , the Empty Quarter, a great desert tract of Southern Arabia. Here Mr. Thesiger has spent most of the last two years, and he has recently returned to the Empty Quarter for further exploration. Before he left, he recorded this analysis of the fascination he feels for ' a half mythical land of emptiness and death ' and the people who inhabit it