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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... felt nothing . When it's my turn to push up the daisies , that is how I should wish to die.'14 Wilfred Thesiger's father , Wilfred Gilbert , was the third of Lord and Lady Chelmsford's five sons . He was born at Simla on 25 March 1871 ...
... felt nothing . When it's my turn to push up the daisies , that is how I should wish to die.'14 Wilfred Thesiger's father , Wilfred Gilbert , was the third of Lord and Lady Chelmsford's five sons . He was born at Simla on 25 March 1871 ...
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... felt too exhausted by the two - thousand - foot climb from Dire Dawa to the Harar plateau to accompany him . Harar seemed unchanged since the Victorian traveller Richard Francis Burton saw it in 1855 and described it in his book First ...
... felt too exhausted by the two - thousand - foot climb from Dire Dawa to the Harar plateau to accompany him . Harar seemed unchanged since the Victorian traveller Richard Francis Burton saw it in 1855 and described it in his book First ...
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... felt obliged to dismiss her . To the devoted , endlessly patient Susannah , little Billy could do no wrong . ' When my mother remonstrated with her , ' Thesiger wrote , ' she would answer , “ He one handsome Rajah - why for he no do ...
... felt obliged to dismiss her . To the devoted , endlessly patient Susannah , little Billy could do no wrong . ' When my mother remonstrated with her , ' Thesiger wrote , ' she would answer , “ He one handsome Rajah - why for he no do ...
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... felt instinctively superior by virtue of his background , education and race . Until the 1930s , he admitted , he was ' an Englishman in Africa , travelling very much as my father would have travelled . " He fed and slept apart from the ...
... felt instinctively superior by virtue of his background , education and race . Until the 1930s , he admitted , he was ' an Englishman in Africa , travelling very much as my father would have travelled . " He fed and slept apart from the ...
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... felt out of step with the present and dreaded the future'.29 Such a reactionary outlook had been doomed from the start , and Thesiger knew it . And , of course , without a sword of Damocles hanging over it , the life he dreamt of would ...
... felt out of step with the present and dreaded the future'.29 Such a reactionary outlook had been doomed from the start , and Thesiger knew it . And , of course , without a sword of Damocles hanging over it , the life he dreamt of would ...
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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