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... more
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Advantages: An insight into so many lost worlds, incl England's Disadvantages: You may not like the man
...be him. This was a man who had done things I could only dream of doing.
Gifted therefore with the chance to read how he came to do them, how could I resist? For those who have never come across the name, Wilfred Thesiger is the last of the Victorian explorers. Post-Thesiger you get into the world of Fiennes and Piccard, of grants and funded expeditions and modern communications…you get into a world that is much smaller, and much changed, for all ... ...his mother utterly desolate, without a home and short of money. So short of money that she could put four boys through Eton and Oxford and live in a glorious house (The Milebrook) on the borders of Radnorshire & Gloucestershire. Perhaps by the circles they moved in, they were poor. These things are clearly relative. For the record, those circles included a great grandfather (Lord Chelmsford) who had been Lord Chancellor, a grandfather (Colonel Lord ...
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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 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. In this autobiography, Wilfred Thesiger highlights the people who most profoundly influenced him and the events which enabled him to lead the life of his choice.
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