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==British explorers==
* [[Captain George Forster Sadlier]] the first European to cross Arabia from east to west in 1819, publishing the book, '' Diary of a Journey Across Arabia from El Khatif in the Persian Gulf to [[Yanbu]] in the Red Sea, During the Year 1819'' in 1866.
* [[Sir Richard Francis Burton]] disguised himself as an
* [[William Gifford Palgrave]] was the first European to cross Arabia from west to east in 1862.<ref name="Discovers Web:P"/>
* [[Charles Montagu Doughty]] travelled through Arabia from 1876 to 1878 living with the [[Bedouin]] tribes <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/alpha/d.html |title=Discovers Web:D |access-date=2007-07-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070706132518/http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/alpha/d.html |archive-date=2007-07-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and wrote a book ''Travels in Arabia Deserta'' in 1888.
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