Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great ExplorerAbrams, 27.10.2011 - 540 sivua “A perceptive and gripping biography” of the enigmatic British explorer, photographer, and author of Arabian Sands (Daily Mail, UK). Wilfred Thesiger, the last of the great gentlemen explorer-adventurers, journeyed for sixty years to some of the remotest, most dangerous places on earth, from the mountains of western Asia to the marshes of Iraq. The author of Arabian Sands, The Marsh Arabs and The Life of my Choice, he was a legend in his own lifetime. Yet his character and motivations have remained an intriguing enigma. In this authorized biography—written with Thesiger’s support before he died in 2003 and with unique access to the rich Thesiger archive—Alexander Maitland investigates this fascinating figure’s family influences, his wartime experiences, his philosophy as a hunter and conservationist, his writing and photography, his friendships with Arabs and Africans amongst whom he lived, and his now-acknowledged homosexuality. |
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... Africa in 1879. Captain The Hon Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger DSO, c. 1902. Thesiger's mother, about 1919. The thatched tukul in the British Legation compound at Addis Ababa, where Wilfred Patrick Thesiger was born on 3 June 1910. (Pitt ...
... Africa in 1879. Captain The Hon Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger DSO, c. 1902. Thesiger's mother, about 1919. The thatched tukul in the British Legation compound at Addis Ababa, where Wilfred Patrick Thesiger was born on 3 June 1910. (Pitt ...
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... Africa. (Courtesy of the Imperial War Museum) Crossing the Rub' al Khali, the Empty Quarter, the great sand desert of southern Arabia. (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) Salim bin Kabina of the Rashid, brining fodder for the ...
... Africa. (Courtesy of the Imperial War Museum) Crossing the Rub' al Khali, the Empty Quarter, the great sand desert of southern Arabia. (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) Salim bin Kabina of the Rashid, brining fodder for the ...
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... Africa and the Middle East. His mother had brought the cabinets to London in 1943 from their former home in Radnorshire. Thesiger commented proudly: 'I can't begin to imagine how my mother knew they would fit into this room. It was ...
... Africa and the Middle East. His mother had brought the cabinets to London in 1943 from their former home in Radnorshire. Thesiger commented proudly: 'I can't begin to imagine how my mother knew they would fit into this room. It was ...
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... African big game, and four years' intense fighting in the war, Hill also captured a defensive, shy, vulnerable side of his sitter's complex personality, a side that Thesiger normally kept hidden. In old age Thesiger was painted ...
... African big game, and four years' intense fighting in the war, Hill also captured a defensive, shy, vulnerable side of his sitter's complex personality, a side that Thesiger normally kept hidden. In old age Thesiger was painted ...
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... Africa . In his book Sport and Travel , Hindlip wrote : " The squalor of native African towns and villages is apparent everywhere ... Menelik's capital is nothing but a collection of huts ... surrounded on nearly three sides by ...
... Africa . In his book Sport and Travel , Hindlip wrote : " The squalor of native African towns and villages is apparent everywhere ... Menelik's capital is nothing but a collection of huts ... surrounded on nearly three sides by ...
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Epilogue | |
Passages to India and England 6 The Cold Bleak English Downs | |
Lasting Respect and Veneration | |
Rape of my Homeland | |
Among the Druze | |
The Flowering Desert | |
Shifting Lights and Shades | |
Prelude to Arabia 18 Arabian Sands | |
Marsh and Mountain | |
Among the Mountains | |
Bibliography | |
Shrine of my Youth | |
The Mountains of Arussi | |
Notes | |
Across the Sultanate of Aussa | |
Savage Sudan | |
The Nuer | |
A Winter in Copenhagen | |
Camel Journeys to the Jade | |
With Nomadic Tribes in Other Lands | |
Kenya Days | |
Index | |
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Abyssinia Addis Ababa Africa Alexander Maitland April Arabia Arabian Sands August Aussa Awash Bedu big game Brian camels camp circumcisions colour companions Danakil Darfur dated 15 December Dermot desert Druze elephant Empty Quarter entry dated Eton father February felt ffrench Blake Frank Steele gave Gavin Maxwell Gavin Young Geographical Journal Graham Watson hunting ibid Idris Jabal January John Verney journey July June Kabina Kenya Kutum later Lawi Legation letter dated 30 lion lived London looked Maralal March Marsh Arabs Milebrook months Morocco mother never night Northern Darfur November Nuer Nuristan October Oxford photographs Pitt Rivers Museum private collection reprint round Samburu Sandford September Sheikh shooting shot South Iraq diary Sudan Sultan Thesiger wrote Thesiger's Tibesti TLMC took travelled tribes tribesmen Turkana village visited WGT archive Wilfred Gilbert Wilfred Thesiger Wingate writing WT to KMA WT verbatim