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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The Life of the Great Explorer Alexander Maitland. Epilogue Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index ILLUSTRATIONS Unless otherwise indicated, all photographs are from private collections.
The Life of the Great Explorer Alexander Maitland. Epilogue Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index ILLUSTRATIONS Unless otherwise indicated, all photographs are from private collections.
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... photographs taken in the early 1930s. A unique photograph of Thesiger boxing for Oxford University. Thesiger's caravan near the Awash Station in December 1933, at the start of his 1933-34 expedition to trace the Awash river to its ...
... photographs taken in the early 1930s. A unique photograph of Thesiger boxing for Oxford University. Thesiger's caravan near the Awash Station in December 1933, at the start of his 1933-34 expedition to trace the Awash river to its ...
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... photographs which he often described as his 'most cherished possession'.4 As far as I remember he did not produce these albums during my first visit, but over the years I became very familiar with the wonderful images they contained ...
... photographs which he often described as his 'most cherished possession'.4 As far as I remember he did not produce these albums during my first visit, but over the years I became very familiar with the wonderful images they contained ...
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... photography and in his writing. Thesiger's craggy features and tall, gaunt frame were a gift for the painter or sculptor. His earliest adult portraits were sketched in pencil on menu-cards by (probably inebriated) friends at Oxford's ...
... photography and in his writing. Thesiger's craggy features and tall, gaunt frame were a gift for the painter or sculptor. His earliest adult portraits were sketched in pencil on menu-cards by (probably inebriated) friends at Oxford's ...
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... photography and travel . In July 1896 Wilfred Gilbert wrote : ' I want very much to see more of the country ... a good pair of ibex horns still haunts my dreams.'19 And in April that same year : ' If ever I come out here again I shall ...
... photography and travel . In July 1896 Wilfred Gilbert wrote : ' I want very much to see more of the country ... a good pair of ibex horns still haunts my dreams.'19 And in April that same year : ' If ever I come out here again I shall ...
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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