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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... night drives interminable , exhausting and bitterly cold . ' " Thesiger's and Alston's target was the road west of Bouerat , on the Libyan coast . On their first night patrol , Thesiger machine - gunned a German convoy , then blew up ...
... night drives interminable , exhausting and bitterly cold . ' " Thesiger's and Alston's target was the road west of Bouerat , on the Libyan coast . On their first night patrol , Thesiger machine - gunned a German convoy , then blew up ...
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... night traffic for 10 days , and this we succeeded in doing . I was with Stirling but he left us after the first night in order to go back to Cairo ... to arrange phase two . A young captain called Alston , an Etonian of Roddy's age ...
... night traffic for 10 days , and this we succeeded in doing . I was with Stirling but he left us after the first night in order to go back to Cairo ... to arrange phase two . A young captain called Alston , an Etonian of Roddy's age ...
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... night with a heavy settee . When he went into the kitchen after dark to watch Namitu and the children as they cooked dinner , he now ordered someone to bring his spear . The weapon rested against the wall behind an armchair near the ...
... night with a heavy settee . When he went into the kitchen after dark to watch Namitu and the children as they cooked dinner , he now ordered someone to bring his spear . The weapon rested against the wall behind an armchair near the ...
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Introduction | 1 |
The Emperor Meneliks New Flower | 5 |
Hope and Fortune | 9 |
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