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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... June 1910. (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) Billy, as the baby Wilfred was known, with Susannah, his Indian nursemaid, on the Legation lawn, Addis Ababa in 1911. Susannah's successor Minna (Mary Buckle) in camp during a trek ...
... June 1910. (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) Billy, as the baby Wilfred was known, with Susannah, his Indian nursemaid, on the Legation lawn, Addis Ababa in 1911. Susannah's successor Minna (Mary Buckle) in camp during a trek ...
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... June 1958. (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) Thesiger's tarada. (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) ... June-July 1961. Thesiger's portrait, painted in 1965 by Derek Hill. (Derek Hill) Outside the Travellers Club, Pall ...
... June 1958. (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) Thesiger's tarada. (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) ... June-July 1961. Thesiger's portrait, painted in 1965 by Derek Hill. (Derek Hill) Outside the Travellers Club, Pall ...
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... June 1964 at his mother's top-storey flat in Chelsea. He was then aged fifty-four. He was sunburnt, tall, with broad shoulders and deep-set grey eyes. As we shook hands I noticed the exceptional length of his fingers. He wore an ...
... June 1964 at his mother's top-storey flat in Chelsea. He was then aged fifty-four. He was sunburnt, tall, with broad shoulders and deep-set grey eyes. As we shook hands I noticed the exceptional length of his fingers. He wore an ...
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... June 1939 show the house and part of the estate, with meadows that slope from terraced lawns down to the River Barrow. Supposedly written at Burgage, Cecil Frances Alexander's popular hymn 'All Things Bright and Beautiful' praised the ...
... June 1939 show the house and part of the estate, with meadows that slope from terraced lawns down to the River Barrow. Supposedly written at Burgage, Cecil Frances Alexander's popular hymn 'All Things Bright and Beautiful' praised the ...
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... June 1910 , in a thatched mud hut that served as his parents ' bedroom . The following day his father wrote to Lady Chelmsford , the baby's grandmother : ' Everything passed off very well and both are doing splendidly . He weighs 81⁄2lb ...
... June 1910 , in a thatched mud hut that served as his parents ' bedroom . The following day his father wrote to Lady Chelmsford , the baby's grandmother : ' Everything passed off very well and both are doing splendidly . He weighs 81⁄2lb ...
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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