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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... shooting . He learnt Turkish , and took charge of the household . Thesiger wrote : ' My father made a number of watercolour sketches of [ Kurdish tribes in their ' spectacular garb ' ] that fascinated me as a boy but have since ...
... shooting . He learnt Turkish , and took charge of the household . Thesiger wrote : ' My father made a number of watercolour sketches of [ Kurdish tribes in their ' spectacular garb ' ] that fascinated me as a boy but have since ...
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... shoot an oryx , the mortally wounded antelope's headlong rush , and ' the dust coming up as it crashed'.14 How many animals he saw his father kill for sport we don't know . The only others he recorded apart from the oryx were two Indian ...
... shoot an oryx , the mortally wounded antelope's headlong rush , and ' the dust coming up as it crashed'.14 How many animals he saw his father kill for sport we don't know . The only others he recorded apart from the oryx were two Indian ...
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... shoot birds in the garden with their ' Daisy ' airguns . Thesiger wrote : ' Had it not been for the First World War I might have been sent to school in England , separated indefinitely from my parents , as was the fate of so many ...
... shoot birds in the garden with their ' Daisy ' airguns . Thesiger wrote : ' Had it not been for the First World War I might have been sent to school in England , separated indefinitely from my parents , as was the fate of so many ...
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... shoot birds , and went on shooting them for sport and scientific study ; but from then on he began to see and to recognise birds not as mere targets , but as living things that were fascinating as well as beautiful . The juvenile ...
... shoot birds , and went on shooting them for sport and scientific study ; but from then on he began to see and to recognise birds not as mere targets , but as living things that were fascinating as well as beautiful . The juvenile ...
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... shooting a female rhino clearly illustrates the dramatic change in our attitude to wildlife since the days when big ... shoot but they had not many cartridges & did not kill her & then they had to whistle for help & we all took our guns ...
... shooting a female rhino clearly illustrates the dramatic change in our attitude to wildlife since the days when big ... shoot but they had not many cartridges & did not kill her & then they had to whistle for help & we all took our guns ...
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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