Arabian oryx towards Saudi Arabia, and by 1914, only a few survived outside that country. A few were reported in Jordan into the 1930s, but by the mid-1930s, the only remaining populations were in the Nafud Desert in northwestern Saudi Arabia and the Rub' al Khali in the south. In the 1930s, Arabian princes and oil company clerks started hunting Arabian oryx with automobiles and rifles. Hunts grew in size, and some were reported to employ as many as 300 vehicles. By the middle of the 20th century, the northern population was effectively extinct. The last Arabian oryx in the wild prior
Battles in the Desert the Desert (Las Batallas en el Desierto) was written in 1981 by José Emilio Pacheco and corrected by Domingo ledezma, a Brown university alumni. The short story was dedicated to Eduardo Mejia and written in memory of Juan Marvel Torres. Accompanying Battles in the Desert are other short stories that such as The Pleasure Principle, You Wouldn’t Understand, The Sunken Park, The Captive, August Afternoon, and Acheron. Battles in the Desert and his other stories have been translated into many languages such as English, Japanese, German, Russian, and French. While Pacheco originally wrote the novella in Spanish, it was enjoyed