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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... (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) Thesiger and Haile Selassie at Khartoum in 1940. (The War Office.) Colonel Dan Sandford presenting a silver salver to Haile Selassie. The column of Thesiger's capture Italian troops extended for a.
... (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) Thesiger and Haile Selassie at Khartoum in 1940. (The War Office.) Colonel Dan Sandford presenting a silver salver to Haile Selassie. The column of Thesiger's capture Italian troops extended for a.
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... Sandford at Mullu he borrowed a double - barrelled .400 Jeffery , a more powerful weapon than the .318 , in case he decided to hunt ( or else encountered ) buffalo in the extensive reedbeds at Bilen . Sandford also lent him one of his ...
... Sandford at Mullu he borrowed a double - barrelled .400 Jeffery , a more powerful weapon than the .318 , in case he decided to hunt ( or else encountered ) buffalo in the extensive reedbeds at Bilen . Sandford also lent him one of his ...
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... Sandford helped Wilfred to assemble his caravan , while Kathleen her son encouragement as well as practical support . Thesiger said : ' My mother was a naturally possessive woman . She knew very well what the dangers were , and the ...
... Sandford helped Wilfred to assemble his caravan , while Kathleen her son encouragement as well as practical support . Thesiger said : ' My mother was a naturally possessive woman . She knew very well what the dangers were , and the ...
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... Sandford commuted between his farm at Mullu and Addis Ababa , arranging temporary accommodation , permits , baggage animals , men and supplies . The letters he wrote between June and August indicate how much trouble he had taken on ...
... Sandford commuted between his farm at Mullu and Addis Ababa , arranging temporary accommodation , permits , baggage animals , men and supplies . The letters he wrote between June and August indicate how much trouble he had taken on ...
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... Sandford's estimate had been low , or , more likely , six licences were issued : one each for Thesiger , Haig- Thomas and four of their men . On 13 July Sandford wrote to Umr instructing him to buy eight riding mules , including three ...
... Sandford's estimate had been low , or , more likely , six licences were issued : one each for Thesiger , Haig- Thomas and four of their men . On 13 July Sandford wrote to Umr instructing him to buy eight riding mules , including three ...
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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