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. |
Kirjan sisältä
Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 71
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... round the Indonesian islands in 1977 in search of Joseph Conrad's eastern world. (Gavin Young) Thesiger and Gavin Young at Thesiger's flat in Chelsea, 1977. Thesiger and Lokuyie, a Samburu moran, in northern Kenya. (Pitt Rivers Museum ...
... round the Indonesian islands in 1977 in search of Joseph Conrad's eastern world. (Gavin Young) Thesiger and Gavin Young at Thesiger's flat in Chelsea, 1977. Thesiger and Lokuyie, a Samburu moran, in northern Kenya. (Pitt Rivers Museum ...
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... 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 a ...
... 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 a ...
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... round chained together ; strings of donkeys bringing in firewood ; caravans of mules ; the crowded market where men and women squatted on the ground , selling earthen pots , lengths of cloths , skins , cartridges , bars of salt , silver ...
... round chained together ; strings of donkeys bringing in firewood ; caravans of mules ; the crowded market where men and women squatted on the ground , selling earthen pots , lengths of cloths , skins , cartridges , bars of salt , silver ...
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... rounded face , a thin , expressionless mouth and an inconspicuous straight nose . He is neither stout nor very lean . It is difficult to judge his height , which seems about the same as Nelson's ; but the sculptor , J. Ternouth , may ...
... rounded face , a thin , expressionless mouth and an inconspicuous straight nose . He is neither stout nor very lean . It is difficult to judge his height , which seems about the same as Nelson's ; but the sculptor , J. Ternouth , may ...
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... .. Afterwards I walked round the bazaars and narrow street market , thronged with wild , white - clothed Abyssinians , Gallas and Somalis ... The only thing one could compare it with are descriptions of the old Aztecs . Gorgeous Barbarity.
... .. Afterwards I walked round the bazaars and narrow street market , thronged with wild , white - clothed Abyssinians , Gallas and Somalis ... The only thing one could compare it with are descriptions of the old Aztecs . Gorgeous Barbarity.
Sisältö
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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Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
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