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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... tribesmen with a lioness Thesiger had shot. (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) Bab Segma, Fez, November 1937. Kilwal, Upper Nile, Sudan. Nier tribesman watch as a hippo is harpooned. (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) ...
... tribesmen with a lioness Thesiger had shot. (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) Bab Segma, Fez, November 1937. Kilwal, Upper Nile, Sudan. Nier tribesman watch as a hippo is harpooned. (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) ...
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... tribesmen with a wild boar Thesiger had ridden down and shot from the saddle in tamarisk scrub near the Tigris in June 1958. (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) Thesiger's tarada. (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) ...
... tribesmen with a wild boar Thesiger had ridden down and shot from the saddle in tamarisk scrub near the Tigris in June 1958. (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) Thesiger's tarada. (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) ...
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... tribesmen arrayed in striking costumes ; the huge marketplace , trading in exotic spices and other varied produce , brass and silver ornaments , livestock and weapons , which reminded him of an Oriental bazaar or conjured up images of ...
... tribesmen arrayed in striking costumes ; the huge marketplace , trading in exotic spices and other varied produce , brass and silver ornaments , livestock and weapons , which reminded him of an Oriental bazaar or conjured up images of ...
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... tribesmen who migrated to East Africa from Abyssinia after Menelik had conquered their territory . Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger noted in 1911 that the Abyssinians had occupied the Turkana territory in British East Africa and Karamoja in ...
... tribesmen who migrated to East Africa from Abyssinia after Menelik had conquered their territory . Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger noted in 1911 that the Abyssinians had occupied the Turkana territory in British East Africa and Karamoja in ...
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... tribesmen who had never had any contact with a world other than their own.250 He often spoke of that ' decisive ' month's hunting on the Awash , yet it had been Cheesman's suggestion that he should explore the river to its unmapped end ...
... tribesmen who had never had any contact with a world other than their own.250 He often spoke of that ' decisive ' month's hunting on the Awash , yet it had been Cheesman's suggestion that he should explore the river to its unmapped end ...
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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