Arabia Felix: The Danish Expedition of 1761-1767 novels about marriage and full of insight into

and full of insight into the perils and promise of growing up and breaking loose

his mother's seamstress

invaluable guide to what Mayes calls "the natural pleasures of language-a happiness we were born to have

At once vivid and surreal

Everything Maria knows she should want lies before her—yet she can't stop daydreaming about another man

Arabia Felix: The Danish Expedition of 1761-1767 novels about marriage and full of insight intoAuthor Contributor(s): Hansen, Thorkild; Thubron, Colin; McFarlane, James; McFarlane, Kathleen Publisher: NYRB Classics Date: 6 13 2017 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW A riveting account of a landmark expedition that left only one survivor, now back in print for the first time in decades. Arabia Felix is the spellbinding true story of a scientific expedition gone disastrously awry. On a winter morning in 1761 six men leave Copenhagen by seaa