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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... Colour Sense , Judgement of Eye ; Breathing Power ; Reaction Time ; Strength of Pull and of Squeeze ; Force of Blow ; Span of Arms ; Height , both standing and sitting ; and Weight'.1o A student of ' hereditary talent and character ...
... Colour Sense , Judgement of Eye ; Breathing Power ; Reaction Time ; Strength of Pull and of Squeeze ; Force of Blow ; Span of Arms ; Height , both standing and sitting ; and Weight'.1o A student of ' hereditary talent and character ...
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... colour not of the cleanest.'30 After Belgrade, Wilfred Gilbert was posted to St Petersburg, where, to his relief he was not 'bothered with too many social duties'.31 He looked forward to playing golf at Mourina, an hour's drive from the ...
... colour not of the cleanest.'30 After Belgrade, Wilfred Gilbert was posted to St Petersburg, where, to his relief he was not 'bothered with too many social duties'.31 He looked forward to playing golf at Mourina, an hour's drive from the ...
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... colours . The effect was enchanting ... I shall never forget our first meal that evening . Roast wild duck I most particularly remember ! Our head servants were Indians and we had an excellent Goanese cook ... 12 In the first draft of ...
... colours . The effect was enchanting ... I shall never forget our first meal that evening . Roast wild duck I most particularly remember ! Our head servants were Indians and we had an excellent Goanese cook ... 12 In the first draft of ...
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... coloured velvet hanging , and tinkling brass and silver ornaments . ' Kathleen's candid account of the feast that followed might have been borrowed from James Bruce of Kinnaird's Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile ( 1790 ) , a ...
... coloured velvet hanging , and tinkling brass and silver ornaments . ' Kathleen's candid account of the feast that followed might have been borrowed from James Bruce of Kinnaird's Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile ( 1790 ) , a ...
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... colour and the throb of drums , and it gave me a lasting veneration for long - established custom and ritual , from which would derive later a deep- seated resentment of Western innovations in other lands , and a distaste for the drab ...
... colour and the throb of drums , and it gave me a lasting veneration for long - established custom and ritual , from which would derive later a deep- seated resentment of Western innovations in other lands , and a distaste for the drab ...
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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