Lawrence and the Arabs

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LAWRENCE AND THE ARABS
Onager solitarius in desiderio animi sui attraxit ventum amoris. Jeremiah
LAWRENCE
from a bust by ERIC KENNINGTON
By
ROBERT GRAVES
ILLUSTRATIONS EDITED BY ERIC KENNINGTON MAPS BY HERRY PERRY
LONDON JONATHAN CAPE 30 BEDFORD SQUARE
FIRST PUBLISHED IN MCMXXVII MADE & PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY BUTLER & TANNER LTD FROME AND LONDON
Early this June I was invited by the publishers to write a book about Lawrence. I replied that I would do so with Lawrence’s consent. Shaw, as I must call him, for he has now taken that name and definitely discarded ‘Lawrence,’ cabled his permission from India, and followed it up with a letter giving me a list of sources for my writing and saying that since a book was intended about him anyway he would prefer it done by me. He thought that I could write a book accurate enough in its facts to discourage further unauthorized accounts and that he could trust me not to spare his own feelings wherever I wished to draw any critical conclusion. And he hoped that the book would have exhausted all public interest by the time that he had finished with the Royal Air Force and returned to civil life.