我刚读完圣约翰·菲尔比（St John Philby）的《The Empty Quarter》，里面有一段讲试图寻找失落之城瓦巴尔（Wabar），现在它与瓦巴尔陨石坑联系在一起。贝都因向导们谈到一块骆驼那么大的铁块，有人……
I just finished reading The Empty Quarter by St John Philby, which has bit about trying to find the lost city of Wabar, now associated with the Wabar meteor crater. The Bedouin guides talk about a chunk of iron the size of a camel, which some…
There's another comment in this thread that mentions the book Declare by Tim Powers. St John Philby is an important (offscreen) character in that book, and certain details from The Empty Quarter are cast in a different light by the plot of the Powers book. I also just love reading travel narratives, so it wasn't too much of a stretch.
关于《星球大战》及其派生词……伯特伦·托马斯（Bertram Thomas）讲述穿越鲁卜哈利沙漠（Empty Quarter）的《Arabia Felix》一书中，列出了一些从阿拉伯语转写的星名。北极星被写成了 Al Jedi……也就是 Jedi。更有意思的是，在阿拉伯语里它被翻译为小山羊（kid 指山羊幼崽，……
On Star Wars and derivations... Bertram Thomas' Arabia Felix, about his crossing of the Empty Quarter, listed some names of stars, transliterated from the arabic. The north star, was written as Al Jedi... the Jedi. It goes a step further, in that it's arabic which translates as the kid (as in a goat,…
我超喜欢《Declare》，这也是我为什么去读《The Empty Quarter》（还有《Kim》）的原因。
I love Declare, that's why I read The Empty Quarter (and Kim).
我刚读完圣约翰·菲尔比（St John Philby）的《The Empty Quarter》，里面有一段讲试图寻找失落之城瓦巴尔（Wabar），现在它与瓦巴尔陨石坑联系在一起。贝都因向导们谈到一块骆驼那么大的铁块，有人……
I just finished reading The Empty Quarter by St John Philby, which has bit about trying to find the lost city of Wabar, now associated with the Wabar meteor crater. The Bedouin guides talk about a chunk of iron the size of a camel, which some…
这个帖子里还有一条评论提到了蒂姆·鲍尔斯（Tim Powers）的书《Declare》。圣约翰·菲尔比在那本书里是一个重要的（未直接出场的）人物，而且鲍尔斯那本书的情节给《The Empty Quarter》里的某些细节赋予了不同的意味。加上我本身就很喜欢读游记类作品，所以读起来毫不费力。
There's another comment in this thread that mentions the book Declare by Tim Powers. St John Philby is an important (offscreen) character in that book, and certain details from The Empty Quarter are cast in a different light by the plot of the Powers book. I also just love reading travel narratives, so it wasn't too much of a stretch.
关于《星球大战》及其派生词……伯特伦·托马斯（Bertram Thomas）讲述穿越鲁卜哈利沙漠（Empty Quarter）的《Arabia Felix》一书中，列出了一些从阿拉伯语转写的星名。北极星被写成了 Al Jedi……也就是 Jedi。更有意思的是，在阿拉伯语里它被翻译为小山羊（kid 指山羊幼崽，……
On Star Wars and derivations... Bertram Thomas' Arabia Felix, about his crossing of the Empty Quarter, listed some names of stars, transliterated from the arabic. The north star, was written as Al Jedi... the Jedi. It goes a step further, in that it's arabic which translates as the kid (as in a goat,…