【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 69

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South Cairo 1930-1938 

THERE is, after Herodotus, little interest by the Western world towards the desert for hundreds of years. From 425 B.C. to the beginning of the twentieth century there is an averting¹ of eyes. Silence. The nineteenth century was an age of river seekers. And then in the 19205 there is a sweet postscript² history on this pocket of earth, made mostly by privately³ funded expeditions and followed by modest lectures given at the Geographical⁴ Society in London at Kensington Gore⁵. These lectures are given by sunburned, exhausted⁶ men who, like Conrad’s sailors, are not too comfortable with the etiquette⁷ of taxis, the quick, flat wit of bus conductors. When they travel by local trains from the suburbs towards Knightsbridge on their way to Society meetings, they are often lost, tickets misplaced, clinging only to their old maps and carrying their lecture notes—which were slowly and painfully written—

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