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Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer - Hardcover

Maitland, Alexander

 
9781590201633: Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1590201639 ISBN 13: 9781590201633
Verlag: Overlook Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

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 and The Marsh Arabs and The Life of my Choice, he was a legend in his own lifetime but 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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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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Verlag
Overlook Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1590201639
ISBN 13 
9781590201633
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
544
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