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Wilfred Thesiger

2011-10-27 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2011-10-27
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Book Synopsis Wilfred Thesiger by : Alexander Maitland

Download or read book Wilfred Thesiger written by Alexander Maitland. This book was released on 2011-10-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.

Thesiger

1994 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 1994
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Book Synopsis Thesiger by : Michael Asher

Download or read book Thesiger written by Michael Asher. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1979, the author of this work read Arabian Sands by W. Thesiger, which had an impact on his life and made him become a desert explorer. In tribute to Thesiger, he has written this biography of Thesigers motivations and achievements. A man of great paradoxes and contradictions, Thesiger revered traditional peoples, but retained at the same time a profound pride in his own race and background. He felt most intensely alive when living on the same level as his tribal companions, yet rejoiced in his ability to return to the civilized world. also follows in Thesinger's footsteps, interviewing many of his former travelling companions and throwing new light on the celebrated Arabian expeditions.

Arabian Sands

2017
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Release : 2017
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Book Synopsis Arabian Sands by : Wilfred Thesiger

Download or read book Arabian Sands written by Wilfred Thesiger. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

My Life and Travels

2002 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2002
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis My Life and Travels by : Wilfred Thesiger

Download or read book My Life and Travels written by Wilfred Thesiger. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of writings and photographs celebrating the contribution of one of the country's most distinguished and enduring travel writers, and the century's greatest living explorer. At the age of 23, three years after attending the coronation of Haile Selassie, Thesiger made his first expedition into the country of the murderous Danakil tribe. Since then he has traversed the Empty Quarter twice, spending five years among the Bedu, followed by several years living as no Westerner had in the strange world of the Marshmen of Iraq. Later he made many mountain journeys in the awesome ranges of the Karakorams, the Hindu Kush, Ladakh and Chitral.

The Life of My Choice

1988 Adventure and adventurers
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Release : 1988
Genre : Adventure and adventurers
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Book Synopsis The Life of My Choice by : Wilfred Thesiger

Download or read book The Life of My Choice written by Wilfred Thesiger. This book was released on 1988. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilfred Thesiger is the last of the great British eccentric explorers, renowned for his travels through some of the most inaccessible places on earth. As a child in Abyssinia he watched the glorious armies of Ras Tafari returning from hand-to-hand battle, their prisoners in chains; at the age of 23 he made his first expedition into the country of the Danakil, a murderous race among whom a man's status in the tribe depended on the number of men he had killed and castrated. His books, Arabian Sands and The Marsh Arabs, tell of his two sojourns in the Empty Quarter and the Marshes of Southern Iraq.

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