Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great ExplorerHarperPress, 2006 - 528 sivua Wilfred Thesiger, the last of the great gentlemen explorer-adventurers, became a legend in his own lifetime. This authorised biography by a longstanding friend and associate delves into his little-known character and motivations, as well as recounting the details of his extraordinary life.While Wilfred Thesiger's own classic writings (including The Marsh Arabs, Arabian Sands, Desert, Marsh and Mountain, The Life of My Choice and My Kenya Days) comprehensively cover his classic journeys amongst the Marsh Arabs in southern Iraq, across the Empty Quarter in Arabia, they fail conspicuously to shed light on his character and motives, which have remained an enigma.Maitland's biography had Thesiger's support before he died in 2003, and has been written with full access, granted to no one else, to the rich Thesiger archive - vivid, intimate family correspondence, and his own letters, diaries and notebooks which are far more confiding than his scrupulously edited published accounts. Maitland investigates in depth Thesiger's parents and family influences; his wartime experiences and the ethos of conflict; his philosophy as a hunter and conservationist; his development as a writer and photographer; his close friendships with the Arabs and Africans amongst whom he lived; and his sexuality. In all, this major biography of a great and unusual man will take its place on the shelf of outstanding lives of the great explorers. |
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The Life of the Great Explorer Alexander Maitland. week . They feel that after the toil and weariness of the rains ... feels the planes are intruding , and it is a great life and one I thoroughly enjoy , and I have too a crusading feeling ...
The Life of the Great Explorer Alexander Maitland. week . They feel that after the toil and weariness of the rains ... feels the planes are intruding , and it is a great life and one I thoroughly enjoy , and I have too a crusading feeling ...
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... feel yet you will know , as I know . I feel an empty sense of loss now that he is gone , for he was so very fine . He was so far above the ordinary , so splendid proud and true . Yet with the feeling of great loss I have no sense of ...
... feel yet you will know , as I know . I feel an empty sense of loss now that he is gone , for he was so very fine . He was so far above the ordinary , so splendid proud and true . Yet with the feeling of great loss I have no sense of ...
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... feel about him as you do , but says none of the things , which he well might , to justify himself . I wrote to you a few days ago and said that I took Gavin out with me in order that he should write a book and take photos . He is now ...
... feel about him as you do , but says none of the things , which he well might , to justify himself . I wrote to you a few days ago and said that I took Gavin out with me in order that he should write a book and take photos . He is now ...
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