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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... camp during a trek in Abyssinia, about 1915. Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger and Ras Tafari on the steps of the British Legation at Addis Ababa. Part of the victory parade on Jan Meda, Addis Ababa, following the Battle of Sagale in 1916. (Pitt ...
... camp during a trek in Abyssinia, about 1915. Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger and Ras Tafari on the steps of the British Legation at Addis Ababa. Part of the victory parade on Jan Meda, Addis Ababa, following the Battle of Sagale in 1916. (Pitt ...
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... camp , they found themselves face to face with a party of half - naked warriors . ' But she need not have worried , the warriors were just intrigued by a white baby ; they had never seen such a sight before.'12 In 1911 , to avoid the ...
... camp , they found themselves face to face with a party of half - naked warriors . ' But she need not have worried , the warriors were just intrigued by a white baby ; they had never seen such a sight before.'12 In 1911 , to avoid the ...
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... camp table with Blackwood's Magazine , a tobacco tin and a bottle of Rose's lime juice on it . He remembered , aged three , seeing his father shoot an oryx , the mortally wounded antelope's headlong rush , and ' the dust coming up as it ...
... camp table with Blackwood's Magazine , a tobacco tin and a bottle of Rose's lime juice on it . He remembered , aged three , seeing his father shoot an oryx , the mortally wounded antelope's headlong rush , and ' the dust coming up as it ...
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... camping trips every year with their parents . On these memorable outings Mary Buckle , a children's nurse from Abingdon in Oxfordshire , accompanied the family . Mary , known to everyone as ' Minna ' , had been engaged in 1911 to look ...
... camping trips every year with their parents . On these memorable outings Mary Buckle , a children's nurse from Abingdon in Oxfordshire , accompanied the family . Mary , known to everyone as ' Minna ' , had been engaged in 1911 to look ...
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... camp where we went each year from the Legation for an eagerly awaited ten days that I remember him most vividly . I can picture him now , a tall lean figure in a helmet , smoking his pipe as he watched the horses being saddled or ...
... camp where we went each year from the Legation for an eagerly awaited ten days that I remember him most vividly . I can picture him now , a tall lean figure in a helmet , smoking his pipe as he watched the horses being saddled or ...
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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