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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... 20 Among the Mountains 21 A Winter in Copenhagen 22 Camel Journeys to the Jade Sea 23 With Nomadic Tribes in Other Lands 24 Kenya Days CONTENTS Epilogue Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index ILLUSTRATIONS Unless otherwise indicated, ...
... 20 Among the Mountains 21 A Winter in Copenhagen 22 Camel Journeys to the Jade Sea 23 With Nomadic Tribes in Other Lands 24 Kenya Days CONTENTS Epilogue Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index ILLUSTRATIONS Unless otherwise indicated, ...
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... camels from the lee side of a dune. (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) Salim bin Ghabaisha of the Rashid, who accompanied Thesiger on his journeys in southern Arabia. (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) Bin Kabina and bin ...
... camels from the lee side of a dune. (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) Salim bin Ghabaisha of the Rashid, who accompanied Thesiger on his journeys in southern Arabia. (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) Bin Kabina and bin ...
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... camels by the desert route , where the Danakil , always dangerous , were said to be giving more trouble than usual.'3 Thesiger did not mention that , as well as several crates having gone missing , the trunk containing his mother's ...
... camels by the desert route , where the Danakil , always dangerous , were said to be giving more trouble than usual.'3 Thesiger did not mention that , as well as several crates having gone missing , the trunk containing his mother's ...
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... camel ticks before he went to bed at night . ' Once , when Thesiger's nurse had carried him a short distance from camp , they found themselves face to face with a party of half - naked warriors . ' But she need not have worried , the ...
... camel ticks before he went to bed at night . ' Once , when Thesiger's nurse had carried him a short distance from camp , they found themselves face to face with a party of half - naked warriors . ' But she need not have worried , the ...
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... camels they drove about in cars . The youngsters I remembered had grey beards . They seemed pleased to see me again , and I was pleased to see them ; but something had gone ... the feeling of intimacy , and a sense of the hardships that ...
... camels they drove about in cars . The youngsters I remembered had grey beards . They seemed pleased to see me again , and I was pleased to see them ; but something had gone ... the feeling of intimacy , and a sense of the hardships that ...
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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