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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... Dermot will love seeing him.'26 Nowhere did he refer to Tafari's invitation . In another letter , Thesiger confirmed that he had already decided on a career that would get him back to Africa – specifically to Abyssinia . He acknowledged ...
... Dermot will love seeing him.'26 Nowhere did he refer to Tafari's invitation . In another letter , Thesiger confirmed that he had already decided on a career that would get him back to Africa – specifically to Abyssinia . He acknowledged ...
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... Dermot wrote in Isis , the university journal : ' A kindly fortune favoured him with the means of practising and ripening his fistic ability . It entrusted him to the care of an Indian ayah , who devotedly assured him that there was no ...
... Dermot wrote in Isis , the university journal : ' A kindly fortune favoured him with the means of practising and ripening his fistic ability . It entrusted him to the care of an Indian ayah , who devotedly assured him that there was no ...
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... Dermot Thesiger wrote definitively in his Isis article : ' as to [ Wilfred's ] normal pleasure , it would appear that women have no part therein ' 20 , 18 Wonderful as it was , the Emperor's coronation meant less to Thesiger than the ...
... Dermot Thesiger wrote definitively in his Isis article : ' as to [ Wilfred's ] normal pleasure , it would appear that women have no part therein ' 20 , 18 Wonderful as it was , the Emperor's coronation meant less to Thesiger than the ...
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... Dermot had adored his horses. On 8 October 1931 , Kathleen Thesiger remarried at the age of fifty - one . Her second husband , Reginald Basil Astley , was sixty - nine . Astley was a childless widower whose first wife , Caroline Douglas ...
... Dermot had adored his horses. On 8 October 1931 , Kathleen Thesiger remarried at the age of fifty - one . Her second husband , Reginald Basil Astley , was sixty - nine . Astley was a childless widower whose first wife , Caroline Douglas ...
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... Dermot had adored his horses , Thesiger would claim that no animal he ever owned , not even his beloved spaniels , meant as much to him as Faraj Allah , the beautiful Bisharin female camel he acquired in the Sudan.18 For a blissful ...
... Dermot had adored his horses , Thesiger would claim that no animal he ever owned , not even his beloved spaniels , meant as much to him as Faraj Allah , the beautiful Bisharin female camel he acquired in the Sudan.18 For a blissful ...
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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