Desert, Marsh and Mountain: The World of a Nomad
by Wilfred Thesiger
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This is a collection of Wilfred Thesiger's greatest journeys - in the Empty Quarter of Arabia, the marshes of Iraq, the mountains of the Hindu Kush and Kurdistan, and the Yemen - illustrated with Thesiger's own photographs.Tags
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The author lived in Abyssinia, Africa, Arabia in the fifty year period between 1910-1968, and this is biographical travel writing. He lived among the Bedu before their life-style was lost in the oil transformations, and among the Marsh Arabs / Ma'dan, and the mountain people of the Hindu Kush. He loved this earth, and describes and photographs poignant pictures of nature and its fierce and gentle inhabitants.
His service as an Englishman is matchless, but it is as an international son that he truly serves. While it is only sub-text, never express, he also rises above the tribal hatreds of his own island people in accepting the general homosexuality of Arabs, and pointing their fierce tribes toward cultural acceptance and religious show more tolerance they cannot yet practice. show less
His service as an Englishman is matchless, but it is as an international son that he truly serves. While it is only sub-text, never express, he also rises above the tribal hatreds of his own island people in accepting the general homosexuality of Arabs, and pointing their fierce tribes toward cultural acceptance and religious show more tolerance they cannot yet practice. show less
wonderful travel/anthropological writing. A lost world brilliantly brought to life by a man who did it all. Superbley illustrated with photos that leap from the page.
Wilfred Thesiger: Desert, Marsh and Mountain: 1979: 299 blz: Collins
Wilfred Thesiger is een avonturier die wereldberoemd is geworden door zijn eerste 2 boeken "Arabian Sands ****" en "The Marsharabs ****" waarin hij het leven beschrijft van respectievelijk de Bedu in de woestijnen van Saoedi-Arabië en dat van de moerasarabieren in het gebied van de monding van de Eufraat en de Tigris in Irak. "Desert, Marsh and Mountain" is het derde boek van Thesiger. In dit boek grijpt hij voor de teksten voor een deel terug op zijn eerdere boeken. De tekst is dan ook niet zo bijzonder maar dat wordt gecompenseerd door de talloze prachtige foto's. Voor een boeiend overzicht van Thesigers leven zie Michael Asher "Thesiger ****"
Uitgelezen zaterdag 12 show more oktober 2002, Waardering: tekst ** foto's ***½ show less
Wilfred Thesiger is een avonturier die wereldberoemd is geworden door zijn eerste 2 boeken "Arabian Sands ****" en "The Marsharabs ****" waarin hij het leven beschrijft van respectievelijk de Bedu in de woestijnen van Saoedi-Arabië en dat van de moerasarabieren in het gebied van de monding van de Eufraat en de Tigris in Irak. "Desert, Marsh and Mountain" is het derde boek van Thesiger. In dit boek grijpt hij voor de teksten voor een deel terug op zijn eerdere boeken. De tekst is dan ook niet zo bijzonder maar dat wordt gecompenseerd door de talloze prachtige foto's. Voor een boeiend overzicht van Thesigers leven zie Michael Asher "Thesiger ****"
Uitgelezen zaterdag 12 show more oktober 2002, Waardering: tekst ** foto's ***½ show less
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- Desert, marsh and mountain : the world of a nomad
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- Desert, marsh and mountain : the world of a nomad
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- For nearly fifty years I have lived among tribal people in remote and sometimes dangerous places, in the deserts of Africa and Arabia, in the swamps of the Upper Nile and the marshes of Iraq, in the mountains of the Karakoram... (show all) and the Hindu Kush.
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- Although few of the great intellectual figures of this society were Arabs, and several were not even Muslims but Jews and Christians, it was Arabs who founded and at first ruled this civilization. [181]
With the discovery and exploitation of oil the life of the Bedu has now disappeared from Arabia, vanished in the course of a decade or two as utterly as the life of the prairie Indian in North America. [181] - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I have travelled through some of the most interesting scenery in the world and lived among the most interesting and little-known tribes, yet no country has moved me as did the deserets of Arabia. No man can live there and emerge unchanged. He will carry, however faint, the imprint of the desert, the brand which marks the nomad; and he will have within him, weak or insistent according to his nature, the yearning to return. For that cruel land can cast a spell no temperate clime can match.
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- 915.6044092 — History & geography Geography & travel Geography of and travel in Asia Middle East Travel; guidebooks
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- DS49 .T46 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Asia History of Asia Middle East. Southwestern Asia. Ancient Orient.
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