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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... journey to and from Tibesti was the longest he had undertaken since he travelled in the Danakil country five years earlier . In 1979 he described the journey in Desert , Marsh and Mountain , and again in 1987 in his autobiography , The ...
... journey to and from Tibesti was the longest he had undertaken since he travelled in the Danakil country five years earlier . In 1979 he described the journey in Desert , Marsh and Mountain , and again in 1987 in his autobiography , The ...
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... journey's end , in Thesiger's view , would ' always be an epic of desert travel ? 20 Instead of May , Thesiger's first journey along the edge of the Rub ' al Khali was put back to October , so following his journey with Vesey Fitzgerald ...
... journey's end , in Thesiger's view , would ' always be an epic of desert travel ? 20 Instead of May , Thesiger's first journey along the edge of the Rub ' al Khali was put back to October , so following his journey with Vesey Fitzgerald ...
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... journey on foot , but the opportunity has passed . Now that the main road is built , the lorries thunder by ; the camel caravans are gone , their bells stilled for ever . " ' 32 In 1965 , when it still had been possible to do this journey ...
... journey on foot , but the opportunity has passed . Now that the main road is built , the lorries thunder by ; the camel caravans are gone , their bells stilled for ever . " ' 32 In 1965 , when it still had been possible to do this journey ...
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Introduction | 1 |
The Emperor Meneliks New Flower | 5 |
Hope and Fortune | 9 |
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Abyssinia Addis Ababa Africa April Arabia Arabian Sands August Aussa Awash Awash river Bedu big game Brian British camels camp circumcisions colour companions Danakil Darfur December Dermot desert diary Druze elephant Empty Quarter England entry dated Eton expedition father February feel felt ffrench Blake gave Gavin Maxwell Geographical Journal Graham Watson Haig-Thomas hunting ibid Idris Iraq Jabal January John Verney journey July June Kabina Kenya killed Kutum later Lawi Legation letter dated 30 lion lived London looked Maralal March Marsh Arabs Maxwell Milebrook miles months mother mountains never night Northern Darfur November Nuer Nuristan October photographs rifle river round Samburu Sandford Sheikh shooting shot St Aubyn's Sudan Thesiger wrote Thesiger's Tibesti TLMC took travelled tribes tribesmen Turkana valley village visited Wadi Wilfred Gilbert Wilfred Thesiger Wingate writing wrote to Kathleen WT to KMA WT verbatim Zaghawa