Literary Sands: Processing Historical Truth in Seven Pillars of Wisdom

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Literary Sands Processing Historical Truth in
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Damascus, 1918
Paris, 1919 (A.John)
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T.E.Lawrence
Oxford High, VI Form, 1906-1907
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June-September 1909 Crusaders Castles 1100
miles walk through Syria for Oxford Thesis on
Military Architecture
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Archeologist (1910-1914) Carkemish (Northern
Syria)
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The Berlin to Baghdad Railway
The Carkemish Mound
The Old Hittite Walls
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Arab Bureau, Cairo - 1916
Lawrence, Hogarth, Dawnay
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But when at last we anchored in the outer harbor,
then the heat of Arabia came out like a
drawn sword and struck us speechless.
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Allenby
Faisal
Abdullah
Lawrence
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At Ronald Storrss HQ, Jerusalem
Desert Whites
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Taking Aqaba July 1917
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Looking for stories Lowell Thomas comes
to Aqaba
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Wrecking Trains
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Lawrence
He may imitate them so well that they spuriously
imitate him back again ( Seven Pillars of
Wisdom.)
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Closing the Show in Damascus October 1st,
1918
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Fighting in Paris January-March 1919
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Fighting in London 1919-1920
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Orientalism Unchecked
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Strategizing Historiography
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Posterity
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Orchestrating historiography
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Encoding History
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Chiseling History
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History Chiseled
1888 - 1935
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With Lawrence in Arabia AS TOLD BY
Lowell Thomas
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With Lawrence in Arabia