Across the Empty Quarter by Wilfred Thesiger
Allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own.-
Escape from the Antarctic
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A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire
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Adventures in the Rocky Mountains
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The Congo and the Cameroons
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From the Meadows of Gold
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The Cobra's Heart
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Jaguars and Electric Eels
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Can-cans, Cats and Cities of Ash
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The Shipwrecked Men
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Life on the Golden Horn
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Fighting in Spain
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Borneo, Celebes, Aru
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In the Heart of the Amazon Forest
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Sold as a Slave
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Hunt for the Southern Continent
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The Customs of the Kingdoms of India
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Piracy, Turtles and Flying Foxes
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To the Holy Shrines
Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003) was a British explorer and travel writer. He was born at Addis Ababa, Abyssinia (now Ethiopia). Educated at Eton and Oxford, he worked in the Sudan Political Service and and later, for a year, as a Political Officer for the Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie. He is best known for two travel books: Arabian Sands (1959) and The Marsh Arabs (1964).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780141025490 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141025492 |
| Title | Across the Empty Quarter |
| Author | Wilfred Thesiger |
| Series | Penguin Great Journeys |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2007-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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