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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... Dermot Vigors ( born in London on 24 March 1914 ) and Roderic Miles Doughty ( born in Addis Ababa on 8 November 1916 ) , had inherited their parents ' looks , Brian bore little obvious resemblance either to the Thesigers or to the ...
... Dermot Vigors ( born in London on 24 March 1914 ) and Roderic Miles Doughty ( born in Addis Ababa on 8 November 1916 ) , had inherited their parents ' looks , Brian bore little obvious resemblance either to the Thesigers or to the ...
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... Dermot Vigors , had been born . On his way to Nairobi Captain Thesiger wrote to Billy and Brian in London from camps at Laisamis and the Uaso Nyiro river , places which the younger Wilfred would often visit during his travels in Kenya ...
... Dermot Vigors , had been born . On his way to Nairobi Captain Thesiger wrote to Billy and Brian in London from camps at Laisamis and the Uaso Nyiro river , places which the younger Wilfred would often visit during his travels in Kenya ...
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... Dermot and , in due course , baby Roderic . At Addis Ababa , Captain Thesiger felt concerned that the still - uncrowned Lij Yasu dreamt ' of one day putting himself at the head of the Mohammadan Abyssinians , and of producing a Moslem ...
... Dermot and , in due course , baby Roderic . At Addis Ababa , Captain Thesiger felt concerned that the still - uncrowned Lij Yasu dreamt ' of one day putting himself at the head of the Mohammadan Abyssinians , and of producing a Moslem ...
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... Dermot and Mary had had it and the compound [ was ] all down so that they had at times practically no servants . ' Thesiger wrote in 1987 : ' Ras Tafari sickened . His detractors might well ponder what would have happened to the country ...
... Dermot and Mary had had it and the compound [ was ] all down so that they had at times practically no servants . ' Thesiger wrote in 1987 : ' Ras Tafari sickened . His detractors might well ponder what would have happened to the country ...
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... Dermot and Roderic's preparatory school , Beaudesert House at Minchinhampton , near Stroud in Gloucestershire , where Mary Buckle's presence as a matron gave the children support and homely reassurance . In 1920 Kathleen and her two ...
... Dermot and Roderic's preparatory school , Beaudesert House at Minchinhampton , near Stroud in Gloucestershire , where Mary Buckle's presence as a matron gave the children support and homely reassurance . In 1920 Kathleen and her two ...
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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