Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer

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Abrams, 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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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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Alexander Maitland was a close friend of Thesiger for forty years. He edited Thesiger's anthology, My Life and Travels and helped produce Thesiger's My Kenya Days: The Danakil Diary. He is the author of biographies of Freya Stark and John Hanning Speke.

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