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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... killing appeared cowardly and totally dishonourable . Warriors had no qualms about murdering an unsuspecting victim . They made no distinction between warriors they killed in a skirmish , and unarmed men they stalked like animals in the ...
... killing appeared cowardly and totally dishonourable . Warriors had no qualms about murdering an unsuspecting victim . They made no distinction between warriors they killed in a skirmish , and unarmed men they stalked like animals in the ...
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... killed between 200-300 of them . They kill [ elephant ] on foot with throwing spears ... I should greatly like to see them doing it . They say a full grown elephant cannot catch a man if the going is good and he keeps his head ...
... killed between 200-300 of them . They kill [ elephant ] on foot with throwing spears ... I should greatly like to see them doing it . They say a full grown elephant cannot catch a man if the going is good and he keeps his head ...
Sivu 316
... killed approximately a thousand wild boar , and claimed that he was ' sick of slaughtering pig . " At first he had ridden after boar , much as he had ' galloped down ' lion in the Sudan . Sometimes he killed them by firing his rifle or ...
... killed approximately a thousand wild boar , and claimed that he was ' sick of slaughtering pig . " At first he had ridden after boar , much as he had ' galloped down ' lion in the Sudan . Sometimes he killed them by firing his rifle or ...
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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