Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great ExplorerWilfred 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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Very exciting. Hunted round together. Ravens very demonstrative. A good
afternoon.'51 On 24 August 1933 Thesiger and David Haig-Thomas travelled by
train and ferry from London to Marseilles, and from there by the MM
Chermonceaux, ...
Very exciting. Hunted round together. Ravens very demonstrative. A good
afternoon.'51 On 24 August 1933 Thesiger and David Haig-Thomas travelled by
train and ferry from London to Marseilles, and from there by the MM
Chermonceaux, ...
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92 Writing in the RGS Journal in June 1949, Thesiger began the description of
his second crossing of the Empty Quarter: 'I had travelled in the southern Rub' al
Khali in 1945—46 and crossed it in 1946—47 and the spell of that great desert ...
92 Writing in the RGS Journal in June 1949, Thesiger began the description of
his second crossing of the Empty Quarter: 'I had travelled in the southern Rub' al
Khali in 1945—46 and crossed it in 1946—47 and the spell of that great desert ...
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A description of these journeys, based on notes jotted in his Ladakh diary, was
published in Among the Mountains in 1998: 'We set off from Leh on 17
September and for the next six weeks we travelled with ponies or yaks from one
village to ...
A description of these journeys, based on notes jotted in his Ladakh diary, was
published in Among the Mountains in 1998: 'We set off from Leh on 17
September and for the next six weeks we travelled with ponies or yaks from one
village to ...
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WILFRED THESIGER: The Life of the Great Explorer
Käyttäjän arvio - KirkusAn eccentric explorer in the tradition of T.E. Lawrence, Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003) lived with tribal warriors in Africa, traveled on camel through the Arabian desert and journeyed to the hitherto ... Lue koko arvostelu
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Introduction | 1 |
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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 brothers 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 Gavin Young 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 months mother mountains never night Northern Darfur November Nuer Nuristan October photographs rifle river round Samburu Sandford September 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