10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THESIGER»
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Thesiger in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia.
During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq-long before they were almost completely wiped out by Saddam Hussein-Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire, and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries.
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Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer
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.
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The Danakil diary: journeys through Abyssinia, 1930-34
A vivid, compelling narrative, The Danakil Diary records how the young Thesiger surmounted overwhelming obstacles and survived the constant threat of death and mutilation by the Danakil, warriors whose tribal status depended on the number ...
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Travellers to the Middle East from Burckhardt to
Thesiger: ...
An invaluable compendium of writing on the Middle East including extracts from canonical and less well known travellers' works.
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Thesiger in Africa
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.
Alexander Maitland, Chris Morton, Philip Grover,
2010
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Across the Empty Quarter
Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.
A stunning photographic record of cultures at the farthest edges of civilization by the world's greatest living explorer.
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Desert, Marsh and Mountain
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.
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.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THESIGER»
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Thesiger is used in the context of the following news items.
Jamaica Psychiatric Association hails Charles Thesiger's memory
The Jamaica Psychiatric Association has hailed as invaluable the contribution of Dr Charles Thesiger to the development of psychiatry in the Caribbean. «Jamaica Gleaner, Jan 15»
For the Thrill of It All
In the late 1940s, the English adventurer Wilfred Thesiger set out on a series of journeys to explore the vast sand desert known as the Empty Quarter of Arabia. «Wall Street Journal, Dec 14»
Sound of silence in Empty Quarter dunes
Thesiger was near the cluster of oasis settlements of the Liwa Desert, quite near where I am now. He was writing words that would be published in his book ... «The West Australian, Sep 14»
Thesiger continues to leave his mark in the Arabian sands
The great English explorer, Sir Wilfred Thesiger, wasn't taken with modern Arabia and the incredible changes that had transformed an area of vast desert into an ... «The National, Jul 14»
Exclusive first look: hotel in dramatic location opens in Oman
In early 1950, the great desert explorer and writer Wilfred Thesiger set out to climb the Jebel Akhdar, an abrupt wall of mountains and isolated plateaux in the ... «Financial Times, Apr 14»
Photo-Op: Modern Nomad
When Wilfred Thesiger, sometimes called the last great gentleman explorer, called to an end his travels in Africa and the Middle East, he settled down in ... «Wall Street Journal, Apr 14»
Photo by British explorer in 1948 key to recent Al Ain archaeological …
Sir Wilfred Thesiger spent five years exploring the Arabian Peninsula, but it was only in 1948, after his second crossing of the Empty Quarter, that he rode to Al ... «The National, Feb 14»
How modern adventurers put cart before the camel in 'crazy' desert …
The aim of the expedition was to retrace the footsteps of one of the legends of desert exploration, British adventurer Wilfred Thesiger, who in the 1940s on two ... «CNN International, Dec 13»
Walking 1000 miles in Wilfred Thesiger's footsteps
He is a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year and his first film – an account of his Wilfred Thesiger-inspired 1,000 mile walk across the Empty Quarter, the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 13»
Epic tale of the desert before the oil came
Sir Wilfred Thesiger, the great British explorer, who died 10 years ago this week, was a man apart, a true pioneer who, like the French oceanographer, Jacques ... «The National, Aug 13»