Wilfred Thesiger in Africa

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Wilfred Thesiger in Africa
Chris Morton

Alexander Maitland

Philip Grover

A unique collection of essays accompany Wilfred Thesiger’s own personal photographs of the Africa he experienced as one of the world’s most celebrated explorers.While Wilfred Thesiger’s own classic writings (including ‘The Marsh Arabs’, ‘Arabian Sands’, ‘Desert’, Marsh and Mountain’, ‘The Life of My Choice’ and ‘My Kenya Days’) comprehensively cover his classic journeys amongst the Marsh Arabs in southern Iraq, or across the Empty Quarter in Arabia, they fail conspicuously to shed light on his character and motives, which have remained an enigma.Maitland’s biography had Thesiger’s support before he died in 2003, and has been written with full access, granted to no one else, to the rich Thesiger archive – vivid, intimate family correspondence, and his own letters, diaries and notebooks which are far more confiding than his scrupulously edited published accounts. Maitland investigates in depth Thesiger’s parents and family influences; his wartime experiences and the ethos of conflict; his philosophy as a hunter and conservationist; his development as a writer and photographer; his close friendships with the Arabs and Africans amongst whom he lived; and his sexuality. In all, this major biography of a great and unusual man will take its place on the shelf of outstanding lives of the great explorers.

WILFRED THESIGERIN AFRICA

EDITED BY CHRISTOPHER MORTON

AND PHILIP N. GROVER

Published to accompany

Wilfred Thesiger in Africa: A Centenary Exhibition, Pitt Rivers Museum

Contents

Cover (#u1d2ab982-36c4-555f-90d4-1043a1a5e9fc)

Title Page (#u56420f25-3a62-5e8e-a0fe-8fa8bc201ee9)

Chapter 1 Wilfred Thesiger in Africa ALEXANDER MAITLAND (#uf7bb51e2-182d-5991-9ce3-2cec27d48529)

Chapter 2 Heart of a Nomad: Wilfred Thesiger in Conversation with David Attenborough (#u6a90d73b-bf3a-5125-8724-800d97ca5ecf)

Chapter 3 Wilfred Thesiger: Last of the Gentleman Travellers BENEDICT ALLEN (#uaa14127a-ced6-5332-bf35-7477f28ed9af)

Chapter 4 Imagined Time: Thesiger, Photography and the Past ELIZABETH EDWARDS (#u1564b5d9-fdb8-5290-b280-ea47f4abb40f)

Chapter 5 An Incidental Collection: Objects Donated by Wilfred Thesiger to the Pitt Rivers Museum JEREMY COOTE (#u9effed8c-a80d-5814-881b-7463b67b59ae)

Chapter 6 Wilfred Thesiger’s Photograph Collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum CHRISTOPHER MORTON AND SCHUYLER JONES (#u29c0b423-a214-539b-9255-ac6170007448)

Chapter 7 Wilfred Thesiger’s Photographs of Africa: A Centenary Selection PHILIP N. GROVER AND CHRISTOPHER MORTON (#ufdc27220-29eb-59bd-a1fe-cd82fcbac5e3)

NOTES (#u9f35a98a-57a8-5b30-8b12-2cbe9ae26b8f)

Bibliography of Works by Sir Wilfred Thesiger (1910–2003) (#u3dc25a59-cf0c-56ee-a6eb-fbe2ad076e2d)

Index (#ue93b410f-a3cc-52b2-9b81-4b5c4630a817)

Copyright (#u3f27afce-5f6c-5375-ae71-7dde19558cb0)

About the Publisher (#ua49f6986-154a-5510-9c45-e71e5c483fc9)