Following on from the author's autobiography, "The Life of My Choice", this book provides a record of Thesiger's 30 years in Kenya. Since his first visit to Kenya in 1960, Thesiger has made a series of long journeys on foot with camels to Lake Turkana, Marsabit and other remote areas.[...]
An anthology of travel writing one of the 20th century's greatest living explorers and enduring travel writers. The text contains extracts from the eight books Thesiger published between 1959 and 1998, most notably "Arabian Sands", "Marsh Arabs" and "The Life of My Choice".[...]
The late British explorer and travel writer recounts his travels in the "Empty Quarter" of Arabia between 1945 and 1950, and describes the vanishing way of life of the Bedouins. Reissue. 10,000 first printing.[...]
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. The author of "Arabian Sands and The Marsh Arabs" and "The Life of my Choic[...]