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Across the Empty Quarter by Wilfred Thesiger
Category: Travel | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
Restless, gripped by an overwhelming wish to make a name for himself in a world ever more hemmed in by progress and 'civilization', Thesiger (1910-2003) embarked on his amazing journeys across Saudi Arabia's Empty Quarter to test himself and to show what could still be done. The result was a monument bo ...Show more
Among the Mountains: Travels Through Asia by Wilfred Thesiger
Category: Travel
'I felt an uplift of spirit. Never had I seen such country.' This was Thesiger's reaction to his first sight of snow-capped mountain ranges and Iraqi Kurdistan. The legendary explorer has always been attracted to mountains. In the course of thirty years he fulfilled his dreams of travelling in the aweso ...Show more
Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger; Rory Stewart (Foreword by, Introduction by)
Category: Travel
Wilfred Thesiger charts the time he spent living with the Bedu, including his legendary traverses of the Empty Quarter. Wilfred Thesiger is the last of the great British eccentric explorers, a legendary figure renowned for his travels though some of the most inaccessible places on earth. Arabian Sands w ...Show more
My Life and Travels:An Anthology by Wilfred Thesiger
Category: Travel Literature
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 ha ...Show more
The Desert by Thesiger, Wilfred
Category: Photography | Series: Fondation Cartier Pour L'art Contemporain S.
Organized around a series of historical and contemporary works, this catalogue examines the ways photography and films have represented the desert since the 19th century. Among the artists included are Herge, Friedlander, Thesiger, Viola and Pasolini.
The Marsh Arabs by Wilfred Thesiger
Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
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 his t ...Show more
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