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Arabian Sands
Häftad, 2007
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159 kr
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In the spirit of T.E. Lawrence, Wilfred Thesiger spent five years wandering the deserts of Arabia, producing Arabian Sands, 'a memorial to a vanished past, a tribute to a once magnificent people'. The Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by Rory Stewart.Wilfred Thesiger, repulsed by …
My Kenya Days
Häftad, 1995
151 kr
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Following on from the author's autobiography, "The Life of My Choice", this book provides a record of Thesiger's 30 years in Kenya. Since his first visit to Kenya in 1960, Thesiger has made a series of long journeys on foot with camels to Lake Turkana, Marsabit and other remote areas. Drawn by the …
Among the Mountains
Travels Through Asia
Häftad, 2000
143 kr
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Wilfred Thesiger, this century’s greatest living explorer, recalls his travels among the mountain ranges of Asia.Although Wilfred Thesiger is still largely associated with the Arabian deserts and the Marshes of Iraq, he has also travelled extensively at intervals, over the years, among mountains …
Arabian Sands
E-bok, 2007
108 kr
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Wilfred Thesiger was born in Addis Ababa in 1910 and educated at Eton and Oxford. Though British, he was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life, "the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets, etc." In the spirit of T.E. Lawrence, Thesiger spent five years …
My Life and Travels
An Anthology
Av Wilfred Thesiger, Alexander Maitland
Häftad, 2003
164 kr
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An anthology of writings and photographs celebrating the outstanding contribution of one of the country’s most distinguished and enduring travel writers, and the century’s greatest living explorer.At the age of twenty-three, three years after attending the coronation of Haile Selassie, Thesiger …
Life of My Choice
Häftad, 1993
201 kr
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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 …
Marsh Arabs
Häftad, 2007
159 kr
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During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries. Travelling from village to village by canoe, he won acceptance by dispensing medicines and treating the sick. In this account of …
Danakil Diary
Häftad, 1998
141 kr
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The earliest and most influential expeditions of the man now considered to be the greatest living explorer.The Danakil Diary is the account of two journeys Thesiger made into the Danakil country in Abyssinia, now Ethiopia, in 1930-34 at the age of 24 – which, today, he still regards as the most …
Desert, Marsh and Mountain
Häftad, 1995
176 kr
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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.
Marsh Arabs
E-bok, 2007
125 kr
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During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries. Travelling from village to village by canoe, he won acceptance by dispensing medicines and treating the sick. In this account of …
Life of My Choice
Häftad, 1980
394 kr
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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 …
Arenas de Arabia
E-bok, 2023
128 kr
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En el espíritu de T.E. Lawrence, Wilfred Thesiger pasó cinco años vagando por los desiertos de Arabia, produciendo ''Arenas de Arabia'', "un monumento a un pasado desaparecido, un tributo a un pueblo antaño magnífico".Wilfred Thesiger, repelido por lo que consideraba la blandura y la rigidez de la …
