Title: Land and mind
First published: 2008
Description: This book is both a study of the work of the Scottish writer, Kenneth White, in thought, travel writing and poetry, and an application of one of White’s main concepts, geopoetics, to Charles Doughty’ Arabia Deserta.
It is a largely forgotten fact that Doughty considered all his travels to be leading up to an ars poetica. Omar Bsaïthi’s thesis is that Arabia Deserta is a superb example of geopoetics in action
  The result of the meeting of White and Doughty orchestrated by Bsaïthi is not only the reinterpretation of an English classic and perhaps a renewal of Arab studies, it is an introduction, via the writings of Kenneth White, to a regrounded field of culture. 
  In his presentation of geopoetics and intellectual nomadism, Bsaithi draws attention both to the nature of discontent felt in the Western culture and civilization in the postmodern era, and to the possible forms of encounter between figures highly representative of the Western mind, searching for the “ways out”, and other cultural spaces.
Subjects: Travel, Nature in literature, Criticism and interpretation, Human ecology in literature, Geography in literature, Doughty, charles montagu, 1843-1926, Geography
Places: Arabian Peninsula
People: Charles Montagu Doughty (1843-1926), Kenneth White (1936-)
LC classification: PR6073.H5 Z82 2008