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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... Milebrook in the Teme Valley, Radnorshire, which Kathleen leased from 1921 to 1942. Thesiger photographed at the time he left Eton, in 1928. One of a series of boxing photographs taken in the early 1930s. A unique photograph of Thesiger ...
... Milebrook in the Teme Valley, Radnorshire, which Kathleen leased from 1921 to 1942. Thesiger photographed at the time he left Eton, in 1928. One of a series of boxing photographs taken in the early 1930s. A unique photograph of Thesiger ...
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... Milebrook [ the house in Radnorshire , now Powys , where he and his brothers lived from 1921 with their widowed mother ] were assegais and other trophies brought back by my grandfather after he had shattered the Zulu army at Ulundi in ...
... Milebrook [ the house in Radnorshire , now Powys , where he and his brothers lived from 1921 with their widowed mother ] were assegais and other trophies brought back by my grandfather after he had shattered the Zulu army at Ulundi in ...
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... Milebrook , the first dog I owned was a golden cocker spaniel , and it died of distemper . I had only had the dog for about a year . ” 21 the In The Life of My Choice Thesiger pictured his childhood at Addis Ababa against a background ...
... Milebrook , the first dog I owned was a golden cocker spaniel , and it died of distemper . I had only had the dog for about a year . ” 21 the In The Life of My Choice Thesiger pictured his childhood at Addis Ababa against a background ...
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... Milebrook , a six - bedroom house in the Teme Valley , Radnorshire ( now Powys ) , which gave her and her sons a home for more than twenty years . Wilfred ' identified [ himself ] completely ' with The Milebrook , which became as ...
... Milebrook , a six - bedroom house in the Teme Valley , Radnorshire ( now Powys ) , which gave her and her sons a home for more than twenty years . Wilfred ' identified [ himself ] completely ' with The Milebrook , which became as ...
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... learnt to drive . He said : ' At the Titley farmhouse and at The Milebrook , until my mother bought a car , we got about using a pony and trap . The small open car I got after I left Eton extended the range of my brothers.
... learnt to drive . He said : ' At the Titley farmhouse and at The Milebrook , until my mother bought a car , we got about using a pony and trap . The small open car I got after I left Eton extended the range of my brothers.
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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