Heroes of the empty view

the long version

"The Empty View is the desert of the Arab nomad, the desert of revolt. The Heros are the tribal Arabs fighting for their traditional freedom, and against the machine age and its politics. Chief among the heroes, an Arab in all but birth, is Ned Gordon, an extraordinary man who has many prototypes among great British eccentrics, but who is perhaps best described as a contemporary T. E. Lawrence, a Lawrence spared his motorcycle crash."--Dust jacket.