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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... looked round incredulously , and saw nothing but a few summer - house huts and an occasional white tent , all very far from each other , scattered over a rough , hilly basin at the foot of steep hills . That this could be the capital of ...
... looked round incredulously , and saw nothing but a few summer - house huts and an occasional white tent , all very far from each other , scattered over a rough , hilly basin at the foot of steep hills . That this could be the capital of ...
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... looked like . It is tempting to picture him as above average height , thin and wiry , with lantern jaws and a prominent nose . These characteristics recurred in later generations of Thesigers : for example General Lord Chelmsford , the ...
... looked like . It is tempting to picture him as above average height , thin and wiry , with lantern jaws and a prominent nose . These characteristics recurred in later generations of Thesigers : for example General Lord Chelmsford , the ...
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... looked forward to playing golf at Mourina, an hour's drive from the city, and reassured his now widowed mother: 'I am awfully lucky in servants, having just got a treasure in the way of an office boy and with a jewel of a cook and ...
... looked forward to playing golf at Mourina, an hour's drive from the city, and reassured his now widowed mother: 'I am awfully lucky in servants, having just got a treasure in the way of an office boy and with a jewel of a cook and ...
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... looked the same as when [ Burton ] had been there'.5 Neither Thesiger nor his father mentioned Harar's links with the French poet , and gun - runner , Arthur Rimbaud , who lived at Harar and was photographed in 1883 in the garden of its ...
... looked the same as when [ Burton ] had been there'.5 Neither Thesiger nor his father mentioned Harar's links with the French poet , and gun - runner , Arthur Rimbaud , who lived at Harar and was photographed in 1883 in the garden of its ...
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... looked ' very smart and neat in her khaki astride costume and helmet ' , and the scenery ' beautiful ' with ' thick forests of enormous juniper and wild olive trees full of mountain clematis , jessamine , briar roses and other unknown ...
... looked ' very smart and neat in her khaki astride costume and helmet ' , and the scenery ' beautiful ' with ' thick forests of enormous juniper and wild olive trees full of mountain clematis , jessamine , briar roses and other unknown ...
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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