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The Life of My Choice

By - Wilfred Thesiger
Floor - Floor 4
Published - Fontana, London, 1988, ©1987
ISBN 10 - 0006372678
ISBN 13 - 9780006372677
Book Status - 2 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - Great Britain
Shelf No - 1
Call Number - 910.924 THE
Physical Description - 463 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 20 cm
Notes - Includes index
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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 the Danakil, a murderous race among whom a man's status in the tribe depended on the number of men he had killed and castrated. His books, Arabian Sands and The Marsh Arabs, tell of his two sojourns in the Empty Quarter and the Marshes of Southern Iraq.

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