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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... lived during his last years at Maralal. Ewoi Ekai, known as 'Kibiriti,' in his garden near Maralal. Thesiger and Erope on safari. (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) Looking out from 'The Viewpoiint' on the edge of the escarpment ...
... lived during his last years at Maralal. Ewoi Ekai, known as 'Kibiriti,' in his garden near Maralal. Thesiger and Erope on safari. (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) Looking out from 'The Viewpoiint' on the edge of the escarpment ...
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... lived from 1921 with their widowed mother ] were assegais and other trophies brought back by my grandfather after he had shattered the Zulu army at Ulundi in 1879 - but I never begrudged those peerless warriors their earlier ...
... lived from 1921 with their widowed mother ] were assegais and other trophies brought back by my grandfather after he had shattered the Zulu army at Ulundi in 1879 - but I never begrudged those peerless warriors their earlier ...
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... lived nearby ' sent over to say some revolutionists were in his garden and were going to murder him'.22 Wilfred Gilbert spent much of his time at Van gardening , sketching , reading , riding and shooting . He learnt Turkish , and took ...
... lived nearby ' sent over to say some revolutionists were in his garden and were going to murder him'.22 Wilfred Gilbert spent much of his time at Van gardening , sketching , reading , riding and shooting . He learnt Turkish , and took ...
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... lived at Harar and was photographed in 1883 in the garden of its first Egyptian Governor , Raouf Pasha's , residence . Thesiger said : ' I knew who Rimbaud was , I suppose , but I knew nothing of his poetry or what he did in Abyssinia ...
... lived at Harar and was photographed in 1883 in the garden of its first Egyptian Governor , Raouf Pasha's , residence . Thesiger said : ' I knew who Rimbaud was , I suppose , but I knew nothing of his poetry or what he did in Abyssinia ...
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... lived in such comfort did not exist and we arrived to a settlement of thatched huts or ' tukuls ' . Each room was a separate round mud hut joined to the next one by a ' mud ' passage and the whole built round a grassed courtyard with a ...
... lived in such comfort did not exist and we arrived to a settlement of thatched huts or ' tukuls ' . Each room was a separate round mud hut joined to the next one by a ' mud ' passage and the whole built round a grassed courtyard with a ...
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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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Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer Alexander Maitland Esikatselu ei käytettävissä - 2010 |
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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