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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... diaries, notebooks and annotated maps describing his journeys. Not until some years after she had died did he encourage me to read letters he had written, many from outlying places, to his mother, who to her eternal credit preserved ...
... diaries, notebooks and annotated maps describing his journeys. Not until some years after she had died did he encourage me to read letters he had written, many from outlying places, to his mother, who to her eternal credit preserved ...
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... diary, consulted it for a moment and said: 'If you've nothing better to do next Sunday, why don't you come along and we'll cook ourselves supper. My mother's housekeeper is away for the night, but we can heat up some soup and scramble ...
... diary, consulted it for a moment and said: 'If you've nothing better to do next Sunday, why don't you come along and we'll cook ourselves supper. My mother's housekeeper is away for the night, but we can heat up some soup and scramble ...
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... diary , dated 1960 , Thesiger commented on 12 May : ' Menelik's gibbi [ palace ] was on a small isolated hill below the present town . ' And on 13 May : ' [ It occupied ] a surprisingly small area on the top of the hill ... He used to ...
... diary , dated 1960 , Thesiger commented on 12 May : ' Menelik's gibbi [ palace ] was on a small isolated hill below the present town . ' And on 13 May : ' [ It occupied ] a surprisingly small area on the top of the hill ... He used to ...
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... diaries he kept in Wales and Scotland between 1922 and 1933 contain detailed observations on local birdlife . During his Danakil expedition in 1933-34 , Thesiger shot and preserved no fewer than 872 bird specimens , comprising 192 ...
... diaries he kept in Wales and Scotland between 1922 and 1933 contain detailed observations on local birdlife . During his Danakil expedition in 1933-34 , Thesiger shot and preserved no fewer than 872 bird specimens , comprising 192 ...
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... diary of life there during his holidays from school and university , with careful notes describing the bird and animal life of the country around the house . The diary's three volumes were bound expensively in leather , and each secured ...
... diary of life there during his holidays from school and university , with careful notes describing the bird and animal life of the country around the house . The diary's three volumes were bound expensively in leather , and each secured ...
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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