Wilfred Thesiger

Arabian Sands

Mitarbeit: Stewart, Rory

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Wilfred Thesiger was born in Addis Ababa and educated at Eton and Oxford. In the spirit of TE Lawrence, Thesiger spent five years exploring the deserts of Arabia. This book narrates his stories, including two crossings of the Empty Quarter, among peoples who had never seen a European and considered it their duty to kill Christian infidels.

Produktdetails

• Penguin Classics
• Verlag: Penguin UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 71671
• Rev. Ed.
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 300g
• ISBN-13: 9780141442075
• ISBN-10: 0141442077
• Artikelnr.: 22714440

Autorenporträt

Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger (1910¿2003) was a British travel writer born in Addis Ababa in Abyssinia (now Ethiopia). Thesiger is best known for two travel books: Arabian Sands (1959), which recounts his travels in the Empty Quarter of Arabia between 1945 and 1950 and describes the vanishing way of life of the Bedouins, and The Marsh Arabs (1964), an account of the traditional peoples who lived in the marshlands of southern Iraq. Rory Stewart served briefly in the British Army and then as a diplomat in Jakarta and Montenegro. In August 2000 he resigned from the Foreign Office and began walking from Turkey towards Vietnam. His book about the walk, The Places In Between (2004), was a critically applauded account of his experiences in Afghanistan. His second book, The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq (2006), outlines his experiences as deputy governor of the Iraqi province of Maysan and Senior Advisor in the city of Nasiriyah shortly after coalition forces entered Iraq and describes his struggles to establish a functional government in these regions. Stewart has been awarded the OBE. Stewart currently lives in Kabul, Afghanistan.