A riveting account of a landmark expedition that left only one survivor now back in print for the first time in decades. Arabia Felix is the spellbinding true story of a scientific expedition gone disastrously awry. On a winter morning in 1761 six men leave Copenhagen by seaa botanist a philologist an astronomer a doctor an artist and their manservantan illassorted band of men who dislike and distrust one another from the start. These are the members of the Danish expedition to Arabia Felix