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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... ffrench Blake, a friend of Thesiger's at Eton. The Milebrook in the Teme Valley, Radnorshire, which Kathleen leased from 1921 to 1942. Thesiger photographed at the time he left Eton, in 1928. One of a series of boxing photographs taken ...
... ffrench Blake, a friend of Thesiger's at Eton. The Milebrook in the Teme Valley, Radnorshire, which Kathleen leased from 1921 to 1942. Thesiger photographed at the time he left Eton, in 1928. One of a series of boxing photographs taken ...
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... [ ffrench Blake ] who had been there and who knew what it meant to me . Those who hadn't been to Eton would simply skim over this ... If you took an afternoon off and went down there , you'd get an impression of St Aubyn's or even of ...
... [ ffrench Blake ] who had been there and who knew what it meant to me . Those who hadn't been to Eton would simply skim over this ... If you took an afternoon off and went down there , you'd get an impression of St Aubyn's or even of ...
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... ffrench Blake was one of the most significant . Three years his junior , ffrench Blake was intelligent and practical , a gifted musician with a precocious mastery of classics . Thesiger struggled with Latin , which his Classics tutor ...
... ffrench Blake was one of the most significant . Three years his junior , ffrench Blake was intelligent and practical , a gifted musician with a precocious mastery of classics . Thesiger struggled with Latin , which his Classics tutor ...
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... ffrench Blake was interesting to talk to . ' He added , somewhat unjustly , ' Perhaps there was not much more to Robin Campbell than his looks . ” 4 Furtive embraces and voyeuristic encounters set a pattern for Thesiger's sexual life ...
... ffrench Blake was interesting to talk to . ' He added , somewhat unjustly , ' Perhaps there was not much more to Robin Campbell than his looks . ” 4 Furtive embraces and voyeuristic encounters set a pattern for Thesiger's sexual life ...
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... . Previously unpublished in the UK, this photograph is one of. Thesiger, aged twenty-two, at the Villa Cipressi, his stepfather Reginald Astley's house on Lake Como, Italy, Val ffrench Blake , a friend of Thesiger's at Eton.
... . Previously unpublished in the UK, this photograph is one of. Thesiger, aged twenty-two, at the Villa Cipressi, his stepfather Reginald Astley's house on Lake Como, Italy, Val ffrench Blake , a friend of Thesiger's at Eton.
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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