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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... villages is apparent everywhere ... Menelik's capital is nothing but a collection of huts ... surrounded on nearly three sides by mountainous country . " Hindlip's scathing remarks were echoed in 1905 by Augustus B. Wylde , a former ...
... villages is apparent everywhere ... Menelik's capital is nothing but a collection of huts ... surrounded on nearly three sides by mountainous country . " Hindlip's scathing remarks were echoed in 1905 by Augustus B. Wylde , a former ...
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... village ' where the Abyssinian servants lived lay in a hollow beneath them . ' Mud hut ' is not really at all descriptive of those charming round thatched rooms ; always cool in summer and warm in winter . They were wonderfully spacious ...
... village ' where the Abyssinian servants lived lay in a hollow beneath them . ' Mud hut ' is not really at all descriptive of those charming round thatched rooms ; always cool in summer and warm in winter . They were wonderfully spacious ...
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... villages for provisions . An arrogant , cruel youth , he took pleasure in watching executions and floggings . To satisfy his blood - lust he massacred Shanqalla Negroes on the Abyssinia - Sudan border , and slaughtered three hundred ...
... villages for provisions . An arrogant , cruel youth , he took pleasure in watching executions and floggings . To satisfy his blood - lust he massacred Shanqalla Negroes on the Abyssinia - Sudan border , and slaughtered three hundred ...
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... village of Rottingdean , three miles along the coast , due east from Brighton . Their parents had visited the school , where some of Wilfred Gilbert's relatives had been educated , and met R.C.V. Lang , the new headmaster . Thesiger ...
... village of Rottingdean , three miles along the coast , due east from Brighton . Their parents had visited the school , where some of Wilfred Gilbert's relatives had been educated , and met R.C.V. Lang , the new headmaster . Thesiger ...
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... from attacking us after dark . We spent an apprehensive night . At intervals I wandered round the camp , flashing my powerful torch into the darkness . I doubt if anyone slept.'23 At a nearby village where they camped among the huts.
... from attacking us after dark . We spent an apprehensive night . At intervals I wandered round the camp , flashing my powerful torch into the darkness . I doubt if anyone slept.'23 At a nearby village where they camped among the huts.
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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