Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer

Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer

Wilfred Thesiger: the life of the great explorer

MAITLAND, Alexander

Harper Press

Paperback. Pub Date :2007-02-05 Pages: 544 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK 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...

Science & Math

Harper-perennial

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 Along with Sir Wilfred Thesiger's beautiful photographsmost of them previously unpublishedthe essays in this volume explore and evaluate his lifetime of African exploration and travel, as well as, for the first time, his photographic practice and its legacy as a museum collection. Wilfred Thesiger was, in the words of David Attenborough, "one of the very few people who in our time could be put on the pedestal of the great explorers of the 18th and 19th centuries." Throughout his life he journeyed through some of the remotest, most dangerous areas of Africa, witnessing and photographing fast-changing cultures to great acclaim. During the 1960s he traveled extensively in East Africa, and from 1978 he spent the greater part of each year living among the pastoral Samburu in Kenya, until retiring to England in 1994. His books, including Arabian Sands and The Marsh Arabs, have been hailed as classics of modern travel writing. Here in this collection, Thesiger is featured in conversation with David Attenborough, while other contributors include Benedict Allen, Jeremy Coote, Elizabeth Edwards, and Schuyler Jones. Published to coincide with the centenary of Wilfred Thesiger's birth in Ethiopia in 1910, this book is a moving celebration of Thesiger's enduring relationship to the continent, and his fascination with its peoples and landscapes.

Wilfred Thesiger in Africa

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

Speke

Constable

John Hanning Speke was one of the great Victorian explorers and his most famous achievement was the discovery in 1862 of the main source of the White Nile in Lake Victoria Nyanza. Born in 1827, he joined the Indian Army at the age of seventeen, and after serving for ten years he joined Sir Richard Burton's abortive expedition to Somaliland.After a military interlude in the Crimea, Speke joined Burton's second Central African expedition in the winter of 1856, twice crossed Lake Tanganyika by canoe and finally pressed on to the Ukerewe Lake which he thought was the source of the Nile; Burton was sceptical.Speke's courage, perseverance and toughness were heroic and his instinct for wild life and wild country remarkable.In 1860 Speke was put in charge of a new expedition and finally penetrated to the place where the Nile flows out of Lake Victoria Nyanza.First published in 1971, Alexander Maitland's biography remains the only full-length study of Speke.

Speke: And the Discovery of the Source of the Nile

History

Africa

Faber and Faber

Robert and Gabriela Cunninghame Graham

William Blackwood

The author of Arabian Sands and The Marsh Arabs and The Life of my Choice, he was a legend in his own lifetime but his character and motivations have remained an intriguing enigma. In this authorized 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.

World

The Overlook Press

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