Wilfred Thesiger the life of the great explorer
Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003), 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...
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New York, NY
Overlook Press
2011
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Table of Contents:
- The Emperor Menelik's 'new flower'
- Hope and fortune
- Gorgeous barbarity
- 'One handsome rajah'
- Passages to India and England
- The cold, bleak English Downs
- Eton: lasting respect and veneration
- Shrine of my youth
- The mountains of Arussi
- Across the Sultanate of Aussa
- Savage Sudan
- The Nuer
- Rape of my homeland
- Among the Druze
- The flowering desert
- Palestine: shifting lights and shades
- Prelude to Arabia
- Arabian sands
- Marsh and mountain
- Among the mountains
- A winter in Copenhagen
- Camel journeys to the Jade Sea
- With nomadic tribes in other lands
- Kenya days