He has survived and memorably documented long treks down the Nile and across the Himalayas; here Levison Wood circumnavigates the Arabian Peninsula. Traveling through some of the harshest yet most historic environments on earth, he challenges our perceptions of this often misunderstood part of the world, seeing how the region has changed while recounting stories that Westerners seldom hear. Illustrated with 16 pages of color photos, Wood's remarkable travelogue—published in Britain as Arabia—takes us to places like ancient Petra and futuristic Dubai, Jerusalem's ethereal Dome of the Rock and a devastated Syrian town.