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Author : Wilfred Thesiger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Arabian Sands written by Wilfred Thesiger and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Maitland
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007368747
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer written by Alexander Maitland and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Michael Asher
Publisher : Viking Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Thesiger written by Michael Asher and published by Viking Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0007325258
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Wilfred Thesiger in Africa written by Alexander Maitland and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Wilfred Thesiger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781860630286
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Crossing the Sands written by Wilfred Thesiger and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Wilfred Thesiger
Publisher : HarperPerennial
ISBN 13 : 9780006548171
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Desert, Marsh and Mountain written by Wilfred Thesiger and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Alexander Maitland
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1590209958
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Wilfred Thesiger written by Alexander Maitland and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 : Wilfred Thesiger
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101160667
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Arabian Sands written by Wilfred Thesiger and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Wilfred Thesiger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780006372677
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (726 download)
Download or read book The Life of My Choice written by Wilfred Thesiger and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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 had killed and castrated. His books, Arabian Sands and The Marsh Arabs, tell of his two sojourns in the Empty Quarter and the Marshes of Southern Iraq.
Author : Wilfred Thesiger
Publisher : HarperPerennial
ISBN 13 : 9780006551003
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Among the Mountains written by Wilfred Thesiger and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilfred Thesiger, this century's greatest living explorer, recalls his travels among the mountain ranges of Asia.
Author : Wilfred Thesiger
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Visions of a Nomad written by Wilfred Thesiger and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of photographs chosen by Thesiger which include images from his Asian travels, the Arab world and images of Africa.
Author : Wilfred Thesiger
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book A Vanished World written by Wilfred Thesiger and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wilfred Thesiger's superb portraits of tribal peoples have earned him worldwide recognition as a photographer. Using a simple box camera which had belonged to his father, Thesiger began his photographic career during a short hunting trip in Ethiopia in 1930 and used the same camera to photograph hostile Danakil tribesmen when he returned three years later to explore the Awash river. Whilst in the Sudan, and now equipped with a Leica 35mm, Thesiger portrayed the Muslim tribes in Northern Darfur, pagan Nuer in the Western Nile swamps and Nuba wrestlers. Among Ethiopia's Danakil he had travelled as a European accompanied by servants, but here he lived increasingly on equal terms with his followers and his photography mirrors this changed attitude. The dramatic visual impact of Arabia's deserts fully awakened Thesiger's latent talent for portraiture and composition. During his five years in Arabia from 1945-50 he was able to depict his Bedu companions with a sensitivity and power only suggested by his pre-war photographs. Conceived in the harshest of settings, these Arabian pictures bear eloquent testimony to the inspirational effect the desert had upon this great traveller. In contrast, tranquil images of reeds, waterways and lagoons characterize Thesiger's matchless portraits of the Marsh Arabs of Iraq -- in which he captures a world which has now completely disappeared. In the seldom visited regions of Kurdistan, Pakistan and Afghanistan Thesiger took many photographs of their striking inhabitants who remained thoroughly unselfconscious in front of the camera -- as did the graceful tribespeople of northern Kenya and Tanzania later in Thesiger's eventful life. These unique portraits were all taken under exceptional conditions. Together they provide a magnificent pictorial record of diverse cultures and vanished worlds"--Publisher description.
Author : Susan Morris
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1999767055
Total Pages : 7460 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019 written by Susan Morris and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 7460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage is the only up-to-date printed reference guide to the United Kingdom's titled families: the hereditary peers, life peers and peeresses, and baronets, and their descendants who form the fascinating tapestry of the peerage. This is the first ebook edition of Debrett's Peerage &Baronetage, and it also contains information relating to:The Royal FamilyCoats of ArmsPrincipal British Commonwealth OrdersCourtesy titlesForms of addressExtinct, dormant, abeyant and disclaimed titles.Special features for this anniversary edition include:The Roll of Honour, 1920: a list of the 3,150 people whose names appeared in the volume who were killed in action or died as a result of injuries sustained during the First World War.A number of specially commissioned articles, including an account of John Debrett's life and the early history of Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, a history of the royal dukedoms, and an in-depth feature exploring the implications of modern legislation and mores on the ancient traditions of succession.
Author : Wilfred Thesiger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book My Life and Travels written by Wilfred Thesiger and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Roger Härtl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781605830988
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Photographs at the Edge written by Roger Härtl and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated look at two early-twentieth-century explorers whose work took them to deserts and mountain peaks, coinciding with the rise of modern photography along the way. Vittorio Sella (1859-1943) was the foremost mountaineering photographer of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, producing widely celebrated images of K2 and other famed peaks. Sir Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003) was a writer, photographer, and explorer, whose greatest journey took him across the Rub' al Khali, a vast desert encompassing much of the Arabian Peninsula. In his new book, Roger Härtl considers these two far-flung figures side by side, telling the stories of two influential explorers through their bibliographic and photographic work, and creating a tapestry where exploration, writing, and image-making all conjoin. As Härtl shows in this richly illustrated volume, the triumphs of Sella and Thesiger coincided with the end of a golden age of geographical exploration and with the rise of photography as we know it today.
Author : P. Bidwell
Publisher : University of Exeter Press
ISBN 13 : 9780859894524
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (945 download)
Download or read book New Arabian Studies Volume 2 written by P. Bidwell and published by University of Exeter Press. This book was released on 1994-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Arabian Studies is an international journal covering a wide spectrum of topics including geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, language, dialect, sociology, documents, literature and religion. It provides authoritative information intended to appeal to both the specialist and general reader. Both the traditional and the modern aspects of Arabia are covered, excluding contemporary controversial politics. Contributions by Hussein Abdullah al-Amri, Madawi Al-Rasheed, W. J. Donaldson, A. B. D. R. Eagle, Andrey Korotayev, Richard I. Lawless, Eric Macro, Brian Marshall, Mikhail Rodionov, Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle, Martine Vanhove and Jerzy Zdanowski
Author : Wilfred Thesiger
Publisher : HarperPerennial
ISBN 13 : 9780006387756
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (877 download)
Download or read book The Danakil Diary written by Wilfred Thesiger and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 dangerous he undertook. It was an extraordinary journey and a remarkable achievement. Thesiger succeeded in penetrating country that had wiped out two Italian expeditions and an Egyptian army before him, discovered what happened to the Awash River (one of the area's last geographical mysteries to be solved) and managed to survive amongst the Danakil tribesmen, to whom a man's status depended on the number of men he had killed and castrated. Besides giving early proof of Thesiger's descriptive genius - with his portrayal of the beautiful, savage landscapes, and their varied wildlife - The Danakil Diary reveals youthful evidence of his fierce motivation and uncompromising will, which are familiar hallmarks of his sixty years of travel among primitive peoples in some of the harshest and remotest areas of the world.
