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- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
30 May 2000
Summary
Wilfred Thesiger, this century’s greatest living explorer, recalls his travels among the mountain ranges of Asia.
Although Wilfred Thesiger is still largely associated with the Arabian deserts and the Marshes of Iraq, he has also travelled extensively at intervals, over the years, among mountains and mountain people in other remote areas of the Middle East and Asia.
In 1987 Thesiger wrote: ‘I have always been attracted by mountains…’ And he observed more recently: ‘Had I done …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780006551003 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0006551009 |
| Author: | Wilfred Thesiger |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Imprint: | Flamingo |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 30 May 2000 |
| Weight: | 180g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Praise for The Danakil Diary: ‘…a revelation. The diaries get us as close as we can now come to the camp fire around which Thesiger told his best stories’ Anthony Sattin, Sunday Times Praise for Life of My Choice: ‘One of the most engrossing life stories I have ever read’ Richard Holmes, The Times
Wilfred Thesiger
Wilfred Thesiger was born in 1910 at the British Legation in Addis Ababa, and spent his early years in Abyssinia. He was educated at Eton and Oxford. In World War I, serving with the patriots under Orde Wingate in Abyssinia, he was awarded a DSO. He later served with the SOE (in Syria) and the SAS in the Western Desert.
Thesiger’s journeys have won him the Founder’s Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, the Lawrence of Arabia Medal of the Royal Central Asian Society, the Livingstone Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and the Burton Memorial Medal of the Royal Asiatic Society.
His writing has won him the Heinemann Award; Fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature; and Honorary DLitt from Leicester University and an Honorary DLitt from the University of Bath.
In 1968 he was made CBE. He is Honorary Fellow of the British Academy and Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College, Oxford. He was honoured with a KBE in 1995.
For over twenty years, until 1994, he lived mostly among the pastoral Samburu at Maralal in Northern Kenya. He died at the age of ninety-three in August 2003.
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