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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... February 1934. (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) Guy Moore at Wasi Tini, Sudan, 1938. Idris Daud of the Kobe-Zaghawa tribe, who joined Thesiger at Kutum, Northern Darfur, in 1935. Idris and Zaghawa tribesmen with a lioness ...
... February 1934. (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) Guy Moore at Wasi Tini, Sudan, 1938. Idris Daud of the Kobe-Zaghawa tribe, who joined Thesiger at Kutum, Northern Darfur, in 1935. Idris and Zaghawa tribesmen with a lioness ...
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... February 1917 Waizero Zauditu was crowned Empress of Abyssinia . Lij Yasu , meanwhile , supported by Ras Yemer , one of Negus Mikael's officers , raised a force and occupied Magdala , north of Addis Ababa in Wollo province . Confronted ...
... February 1917 Waizero Zauditu was crowned Empress of Abyssinia . Lij Yasu , meanwhile , supported by Ras Yemer , one of Negus Mikael's officers , raised a force and occupied Magdala , north of Addis Ababa in Wollo province . Confronted ...
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... February 1924 he wrote telling her : ' Mr McNeile lent me The Ivory Raiders by Major Rayne . It is very good and quite true . It is all about the Abyssinian Raids into Kenya Colony.'16 A list of ' African Books owned by W Thesiger ...
... February 1924 he wrote telling her : ' Mr McNeile lent me The Ivory Raiders by Major Rayne . It is very good and quite true . It is all about the Abyssinian Raids into Kenya Colony.'16 A list of ' African Books owned by W Thesiger ...
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... February , and this time I was successful in tracing the river to its end in Lake Abhebad . I then crossed the lava deserts of French Somaliland to Tajura , where I arrived on 20 May . ' 19 Writing to his mother , he described his camp ...
... February , and this time I was successful in tracing the river to its end in Lake Abhebad . I then crossed the lava deserts of French Somaliland to Tajura , where I arrived on 20 May . ' 19 Writing to his mother , he described his camp ...
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... February 1934 asking him for a copy of it . ) Thesiger's caravan already numbered forty men , most of whom had been armed with rifles . He wrote : “ They have increased my escort somewhat . I deliberately prevented them doing so too ...
... February 1934 asking him for a copy of it . ) Thesiger's caravan already numbered forty men , most of whom had been armed with rifles . He wrote : “ They have increased my escort somewhat . I deliberately prevented them doing so too ...
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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