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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... wrote in a romantic mood to his wife , who was then in England and pregnant ... Kathleen Mary Vigors was twenty - nine when they married on 21 August 1909 ... Kathleen's younger sister Eileen Edmée took place in November that same year ...
... wrote in a romantic mood to his wife , who was then in England and pregnant ... Kathleen Mary Vigors was twenty - nine when they married on 21 August 1909 ... Kathleen's younger sister Eileen Edmée took place in November that same year ...
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... wrote : ' We are having a splendid journey and Kathleen is better than I have ever seen her . " He thought she looked ' very smart and neat in her khaki astride costume and helmet ' , and the scenery ' beautiful ' with ' thick forests ...
... wrote : ' We are having a splendid journey and Kathleen is better than I have ever seen her . " He thought she looked ' very smart and neat in her khaki astride costume and helmet ' , and the scenery ' beautiful ' with ' thick forests ...
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... Kathleen wrote that for the occasion ' Wilfred was wearing full diplomatic uniform and I my smartest London frock [ her ' going away ' dress worn after her wedding ] and a large befeathered hat . To the European eye we surely would have ...
... Kathleen wrote that for the occasion ' Wilfred was wearing full diplomatic uniform and I my smartest London frock [ her ' going away ' dress worn after her wedding ] and a large befeathered hat . To the European eye we surely would have ...
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... Kathleen , who was pregnant once again , returned to England , and by the time Wilfred Gilbert joined her there at the end of March , the Thesigers ' third son , Dermot Vigors , had been born . On his way to Nairobi Captain Thesiger wrote ...
... Kathleen , who was pregnant once again , returned to England , and by the time Wilfred Gilbert joined her there at the end of March , the Thesigers ' third son , Dermot Vigors , had been born . On his way to Nairobi Captain Thesiger wrote ...
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... letter aloud , Kathleen must have pictured her husband in his khaki shirt and riding breeches , smoking his pipe in the shade of his fly - tent or under a shady tree ; writing with meticulous care on official paper ruffled now and then ...
... letter aloud , Kathleen must have pictured her husband in his khaki shirt and riding breeches , smoking his pipe in the shade of his fly - tent or under a shady tree ; writing with meticulous care on official paper ruffled now and then ...
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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