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1	The Life of My Choice more books like this by Wilfred Thesiger add to wishlist Wilfred Thesiger is the last of the great British eccentric explorers, renowned for his travels through some of the most inaccessible places on earth. As a child in Abyssinia he watched the glorious armies of Ras Tafari returning from hand-to-hand battle, their prisoners in chains; at the age of 23 he made his first expedition into the country of ... see all copies from $2.79! new only from $17.80! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Arabian Sands Arabian Sands: Revised Edition Revised Edition more books like this by Wilfred Thesiger add to wishlist The author recounts his travels in the Empty Quarter of Arabia between 1945 and 1950, and describes the vanishing way of life of the Bedouins. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99!
3	The Marsh Arabs more books like this by Wilfred Thesiger add to wishlist 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 time there he pays tribute to the hospitality, ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $9.16! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Arabian Sands more books like this by Wilfred Thesiger add to wishlist 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 was his widely acclaimed first book and is ... see all copies from $2.42! new only from $8.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Danakil Diary: Journeys Through Abyssinia, 1930-34 more books like this by Wilfred Thesiger add to wishlist The earliest and most influential expeditions of the man now considered to be the greatest living explorer. The Danakil Diary is the account of two journeys Thesiger made into the Danakil country in Abyssinia, now Ethiopia, in 1930-34 at the age of 24 -- which, today, he still regards as the most dangerous he undertook. It was an extraordinary ... see all copies from $17.74! new only from $72.24! \| first editions
6	My Kenya Days more books like this by Wilfred Thesiger add to wishlist The author has lived in Kenya since 1960. He first went not to the white highlands farmed by Europeans but to the vast, desolate Northern Province that borders Somalia, Abyssinia, the Sudan and Uganda. Lured by the space, silence and solitude, Thesiger made some very long journeys on foot, relishing the opportunity to observe teeming wild life, ... see all copies from $2.39! new only from $90.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Among the Mountains: Travels Through Asia more books like this by Wilfred Thesiger add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $6.50! new only from $10.56! \| first editions \| SVS
8	A Vanished World more books like this by Wilfred Thesiger add to wishlist Wilfred Thesiger presents a lifetime of photographs from the farther frontiers of the civilized world, including Nuba wrestlers, the murderous Danakil of Ethiopia, and the Bedouins of Syria. see all copies from $22.00! new only from $89.00! \| first editions
9	The Mammoth Book of Explorers more books like this by John Keay (Editor), Wilfred Thesiger (Foreword by) add to wishlist During the golden age of exploration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when the intrepid travelers emerged from the jungles, deserts, and ice caps of the world's remotest locations, they were greeted by an awestruck public as though they had returned from the dead or other worlds. The Mammoth Book of Explorers recaptures the thrill of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
10	Across the Empty Quarter by Wilfred Thesiger add to wishlist 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 both to his resilience and to the Bedu who ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $8.14!
11 view cover	Bedouin Poetry from Sinai and the Negev: Mirror of a Culture more books like this by Mr. Clinton Bailey, Wilfred Thesiger (Foreword by), Baily add to wishlist The desert-dwelling Bedouin have always been a subject of intense fascination. Their culture and ethics are still largely a mystery, both for the peoples with whom they share the Middle-Eastern and African lands, and for those living in the West. Like other non-literate peoples, the Bedouin have a strong oral tradition and use poetry for many ... see all copies from $34.57! new only from $157.50! \| SVS
12 view cover	Desert, marsh and mountain : world of a nomad more books like this by Wilfred Thesiger add to wishlist This is a collection of Wilfred Thesiger's greatest journeys - in the Empty Quarter of Arabia, the marshes of Iraq, the mountains of the Hindu Kush and Kurdistan, and the Yemen - illustrated with Thesiger's own photographs. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $15.38! \| first editions
13 view cover	The Desert more books like this by Raymond Depardon, Mounira Khemir, Wilfred Thesiger add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $22.84! new only from $28.87! \| first editions \| SVS
14	Desert, marsh and mountain : the world of a nomad more books like this by Wilfred Thesiger add to wishlist see all copies from $20.23! new only from $203.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	My Life and Travels by Wilfred Thesiger add to wishlist An anthology of writings and photographs celebrating the outstanding contribution of one of the country's most distinguished and enduring travel writers, and the century's greatest living explorer. At the age of twenty-three, three years after attending the coronation of Haile Selassie, Thesiger made his first expedition into the country of the ... see all copies from $12.47! new only from $12.47!
16	Visions of a nomad more books like this by Wilfred Thesiger add to wishlist Wilfred Thesiger is one of the great explorers of this century. However, he is unique in that, unlike any of the other great travellers and writers of the past - T.E. Lawrence, Doughty, Burton and Livingstone - he had the opportunity, and developed the skill, to take photographs which do more than complement his achievements. While he has wondered ... see all copies from $25.98! signed copies \| first editions
17	The Last Nomad more books like this by Wilfred Thesiger add to wishlist see all copies from $8.00!
18 view cover	My Life and Travels: a Selection by Wilfred Thesiger add to wishlist An anthology of writings and photographs celebrating the outstanding contribution of one of the country's most distinguished and enduring travel writers, and the century's greatest living explorer. 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 ... see all copies from $6.51!
19 view cover	Crossing the Sands by Wilfred Thesiger add to wishlist see all copies from $48.49! new only from $198.04! \| first editions
20 view cover	Wilfred Thesiger. a Life in Pictures by Alexander Maitland add to wishlist 'One of the very few people who in our time could be put on the pedestal of the great explorers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries' David Attenborough An exquisite pictorial record, charting the career and outstanding achievements of one of the country's most distinguished travel writers and photographers, and the twentieth century's ... see all copies from $47.61! new only from $47.61! \| first editions
21	Carnets Dabyssinie by Wilfred; Bories Thesiger, Alain add to wishlist see all copies from $69.63! new only from $69.63!
22	The Thesiger collection : a catalogue of unique photographs more books like this by Wilfred Thesiger add to wishlist see all copies from $8.41! new only from $54.99!
23	Mein Leben in Afrika Und Arabien by Wilfred; Schwarzer Thesiger, Jochen add to wishlist see all copies from $22.01! new only from $45.78!
24	Mein Leben in Afrika Und Arabien by Wilfred; Schwarzer Thesiger, Jochen add to wishlist see all copies from $50.55!
25	Die Brunnen Der W¿Ste. Mit Den Beduinen Durch Das Unbekannte Arabien by Wilfred Thesiger add to wishlist see all copies from $20.85!

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