Excerpt from In the Desert: The Hinterland of Algiers Excitement of the desert - Its stimulus Of theh nerves, not Of the mind - Corresponding excitability in Arab temperament and character - Their campaigns - Non-intellectual nature Of desert scenery - Its deadness - Eflects on the Arab - Lack of coherence in Arab character - Destructiveness of the desert - Its Object to blot out all life and all form - Similar aim Of all Arab activity His history a history of destruction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.