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Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer
Wilfred Thesiger, the last of the great gentlemen explorer-adventurers, became a legend in his own lifetime. This authorised biography by a longstanding friend and associate delves into his little-known character and motivations, as well as recounting the details of his extraordinary life.
My Life and Travels
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.
Wilfred Thesiger
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Wilfred Thesiger in Africa
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL, POLITICAL & MILITARY. Last of the great gentleman adventurers, was, in the words of David Attenborough, 'one of the very few people who in our time could be put on the pedestal of the great explorers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.' Born at the British Legation in 1910 in Addis Ababa, Thesiger spent his early years in Abyssinia. He was educated at Eton and Oxford and in 1930, aged twenty, attended the coronation of Haile Selassie at the Emperor's personal invitation. Throughout his life he journeyed through some of the remotest, most dangerous areas of Africa, the Middle East and Asia, witnessing and photographing fast-changing cultures to great acclaim. Containing around two hundred photographs from Thesiger's personal archive, many of them previously unpublished, these essays explore and evaluate his lifetime of exploration and travel in Africa, as well as, for the first time, his photographic practice and its legacy as a museum collection.
Arabian Sands
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Wilfred Thesiger
Pendant dix mois, il peut porter la djellaba, boire un cocktail d'eau saumâtre et de pisse de chameau, grignoter une poignée de dattes véreuses, abattre un lion pour rendre service... Et réintégrer, l'espace de quelques semaines, son costume de gentleman à melon et parapluie, capable de se tordre le nez au-dessus d'une tasse d'Earl Grey trop infusée. Wilfred Thesiger est un caméléon, à l'aise dans tous les mondes. Mais il ne faut pas s'y tromper : les paysages ne l'intéressent guère. Ce sont les hommes qui l'aiguillonnent. Fiers bédouins du désert, guerriers soudanais nus comme des vers, pasteurs abyssins en peaux de bêtes, imprévisibles nomades afghans, Arabes amphibies de Mésopotamie... C'est à eux qu'il a consacré sa vie, explorant les terres interdites de l'Afrique et de l'Asie, pour sauver de l'oubli le monde barbare et splendide des nomades qu'il admire tant. Inspirateur d'Hugo Pratt et de James Bond, Thesiger est le " dernier explorateur du XXe siècle ". Sa vie d'aventure, à la marge, libre et frondeuse, le rend admirable. Et admirer Thesiger, c'est déjà admirer le monde.
Crossing the Sands
Wifred Thesiger describes his journeys in the Empty Quarter and the Arabian Peninula during the late forties. At that time few Europeans travelled in those areas and occasionally their presence was not welcome. From these journeys he emerged with a great respect for the Bedu who were his travelling companions. His writing style is masterly as he describes his journeys in a plain language which is at the same time eloquent. He shows a great understanding of and a fondness for the Bedu people and their now vanished way of life. Theiseger is also a photographer of exceptional ability and this volume contains a large number of the photographs he took on his expeditions. These and the text create a stunning picture of the land and its peoples. The author is considered the last of the great explorers and this book is an exquisite record charting his memorable adventures with travelling companions bin Kabina and bin Ghabaisha across the Arabian Empty Quarter. He was a skilled photographer and was unique among travel writers of the past in having had the opportunity to take photographs that complement his formidable writing.
Desert, Marsh and Mountain
This is a collection of Wilfred Thesiger's greatest journeys - in the Empty Quarter of Arabia, the marshes of Iraq, the mountains of the Hindu Kush and Kurdistan, and the Yemen - illustrated with Thesiger's own photographs.
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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.
