Arabian Sands
Author : Wilfred Thesiger
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File Size : 33,62 MB
Release : 2017
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Author : Wilfred Thesiger
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File Size : 33,62 MB
Release : 2017
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Author : Michael Asher
Publisher : Viking Books
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 24,54 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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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.
Author : Alexander Maitland
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 20,39 MB
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0007368747
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.
Author : Wilfred Thesiger
Publisher : HarperPerennial
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,44 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Middle East
ISBN : 9780006548171
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.
Author : Wilfred Thesiger
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,56 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Arabian Peninsula
ISBN : 9781860630286
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.
Author : Alexander Maitland
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 34,28 MB
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1590209958
“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.
Author : Alexander Maitland
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 11,71 MB
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0007325258
A unique collection of essays accompany Wilfred Thesiger’s own personal photographs of the Africa he experienced as one of the world’s most celebrated explorers.
Author : Sir Frederick THESIGER
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Page : 38 pages
File Size : 27,19 MB
Release : 1806
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Author : Geoffrey P. Nash
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 33,85 MB
Release : 2011-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780857288783
An invaluable compendium of writing on the Middle East including extracts from canonical and less well known travellers’ works.
Author : Wilfred Thesiger
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 26,37 MB
Release : 2008-01-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1101160667
Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life-"the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets." In the spirit of T. E. Lawrence, he set out to explore the deserts of Arabia, traveling among peoples who had never seen a European and considered it their duty to kill Christian infidels. His now-classic account is invaluable to understanding the modern Middle East.