Lawrence of Arabia
The Life, The Legend
(in association with the Imperial War Museum)
Malcolm Brown
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| ‘Remarkable … a feast … magnificently captures and encompasses a life of charisma and calamity’ | | – The Times |
| ‘A loving portrait of a complex man and a Middle East that is suddenly non-threatening and culturally accessible’ | | – Metro |
| ‘An absolutely fascinating read … an excellent book that I could not put down and well worth the cost’ | | – School Librarian |
This book, and the major exhibition at the Imperial War Museum that it accompanied, combined to shed new light on this enigmatic, contradictory and troubled man –
a character of universal appeal who lived on the edge in all that he did.
T. E. Lawrence was the first modern celebrity and since his death the almost mythic figure of the man on a camel enacting a heroic dream has captured the imagination of each succeeding generation.
Now, seventy years from Lawrence’s death, this visual biography takes us inside the mind of a man of extraordinary energy, ability and charisma who seemed to have everything in his hands only to throw it away, turning the rest of his life into an obsessive quest for anonymity and sanctuary, culminating in a motorbike crash and death at the age of only forty six.
In this wonderfully illustrated book, the drama unfolds in Lawrence’s own atmospheric photographs, haunting paintings of the desert and its peoples, evocative drawings and ephemera, all supported by quotations from his personal account of his experiences.
Malcolm Brown has written widely on T. E. Lawrence, and his researches over many years have included interviews with those who knew Lawrence and with many others who took part in his story. His BBC documentary on Lawrence of Arabia had ten million viewers at its first showing.
Also of interest
Portrait of Islam: A Journey through the Muslim World
The Crusades and the Holy Land
The Mediterranean in History
The Seventy Great Battles of All Time
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|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500512388 | | ISBN-13 978-0500512388 | | | | 27.0 x 24.6 cm | | Hardback | | 208pp | | 195 illustrations, 54 in colour | | First published 2005 | | | | £24.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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