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Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer

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'A model biography of the explorer!Maitland has meticulously separated reality from legend!here was such a remarkable personality, who did so many indisputably remarkable things, that the embroidery does not seem important.' Sunday Telegraph 'This book is a worthy testament to an exceptional life -- and as an authorised biography it is also the last cry of Thesiger himself, someone who evoked complete worlds of brutal majesty now denied the rest of us forever.' Independent on Sunday 'Masterly.' The Times 'In his long and extraordinary life Wilfred Thesiger was compared to the greatest travellers of the Victorian age!Maitland captures that strange attractiveness, his undoubted love and understanding of a now-vanished world.' Financial Times 'What makes Maitland's book so worthwhile are the letters which Thesiger wrote home to his devoted mother Kathleen.' The Spectator 'This thorough biography will be fascinating to Thesiger aficionados.' Mail on Sunday 'Maitland has done justice to an extraordinary subject.' Scotsman 'In this important biography of one of England's great legendary figures, Wilfred Thesiger's life and works are analysed in minute detail!(his life) was so full of interest and excitement!that it reads like an adventure story.' Country Life 'Meticulous research is illuminated by Maitland's evocations of the Thesiger's affinity with a world characterised by desert romance.' Sunday Telegraph    Evening Standard
'wonderful book...a convincing and eminently readable portrait of a complicated, highly idiosyncratic man' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
 
 


Category: 102
Condition: New
ISBN: 0006384072  Published: 2007-02-05
Author: Alexander Maitland  
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd





                      
                      
                      



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