The Life of My Choice by Wilfred Thesiger
Wilfred Thesiger, this centurys greatest living explorer, reveals the events and people that most influenced his travels through some of the most inaccessible places on earth.‘One of the few people who in our time could be put on the pedestal of the great explorers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries’
David Attenborough
‘He is unquestionably, one of the greatest travellers the British have ever produced, the last of our recognizable primitives. He also writes with much distinction and honesty.’
Geoffrey Moorhouse, Daily Telegraph
‘A treasure galleon built to the same specifications as Arabian Sands and The Marsh Arabs… it is the record of a man magnificiently and unabachedly out of step with his times’
E.S Turner London Review of Books
Wilfred Thesiger was born in 1910 in Ethiopia. From 1930 Thesiger travelled through remote areas of Africa, the Middle East and Asia. His journeys and his books have won him numerous prestigious awards over the years. In 1968 he was made a CBE; he was honoured with a KBE in 1995.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780002161947 |
| ISBN 10 | 000216194X |
| Title | The Life of My Choice |
| Author | Wilfred Thesiger |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2000-09-18 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
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