Alexander Maitland

Wilfred Thesiger (eBook, ePUB)

The Life of the Great Explorer

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Wilfred Thesiger, the great explorer-adventurer and author of 'Arabian Sands' and 'The Marsh Arabs', and one work of autobiography 'The Life of my Choice', became a legend in his own lifetime, but his character and motivations have remained an intriguing enigma.

In this authorised 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007368747
• Artikelnr.: 39967666

Autorenporträt

Alexander Maitland was a close friend of Thesiger for forty years. He edited Thesiger's anthology, 'My Life and Travels' (2002) and helped produce Thesiger's 'My Kenya Days', 'The Danakil Diary', 'Among the Mountains' and 'A Vanished World'. He is the author of biographies of Freya Stark and John Hanning Speke, and most recently of 'Wilfred Thesiger: A Life in Pictures'.