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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... Lion Land to the Court of the Lion of Judah were devoted entirely to Addis Ababa , whose name in Amharic means ' New Flower'.2 Vivian described the remote setting ; the tents and primitive thatched huts of the British Agency ( as he ...
... Lion Land to the Court of the Lion of Judah were devoted entirely to Addis Ababa , whose name in Amharic means ' New Flower'.2 Vivian described the remote setting ; the tents and primitive thatched huts of the British Agency ( as he ...
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... lion - and leopard - skin capes , armed with rifles , spears and shields . Wilfred Gilbert wrote : ' It was very ... lions in plaster on the roof ... Afterwards I walked round the bazaars and narrow street market , thronged with wild ...
... lion - and leopard - skin capes , armed with rifles , spears and shields . Wilfred Gilbert wrote : ' It was very ... lions in plaster on the roof ... Afterwards I walked round the bazaars and narrow street market , thronged with wild ...
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... lions ' mane standing up all round and the skins of leopards and lions over their gold embroidered silk and velvet mantles , an escort of Galla horsemen in the same dresses , each with two long spears rode on either side on fiery little ...
... lions ' mane standing up all round and the skins of leopards and lions over their gold embroidered silk and velvet mantles , an escort of Galla horsemen in the same dresses , each with two long spears rode on either side on fiery little ...
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... lion and warthogs . Wilfred Gilbert may have got the idea of illustrating his stories with thumbnail sketches of big game from Sir Percy Fitzpatrick's South African classic Jock of the Bushveld . First published in 1907 , the book was ...
... lion and warthogs . Wilfred Gilbert may have got the idea of illustrating his stories with thumbnail sketches of big game from Sir Percy Fitzpatrick's South African classic Jock of the Bushveld . First published in 1907 , the book was ...
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... lion . Aged six or seven , Thesiger pored over Hodson's photographs of game he had shot , and listened spellbound to his stories . Later he read Hodson's books Where Lion Reign , published in 1927 , and Seven Years in Southern Abyssinia ...
... lion . Aged six or seven , Thesiger pored over Hodson's photographs of game he had shot , and listened spellbound to his stories . Later he read Hodson's books Where Lion Reign , published in 1927 , and Seven Years in Southern Abyssinia ...
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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