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Wilfred Thesiger: A Life in Pictures

Wilfred Thesiger: A Life in Pictures

Wilfred Thesiger

Sir Wilfred Thesiger was born in 1910 at the original British Legation - a collection of wattle-and-daub tukuls - in Addis Ababa, and spent his early years in Abyssinia.
Desert, Marsh and Mountain

Desert, Marsh and Mountain

Wilfred Thesiger

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.
Arabian Sands

Arabian Sands

Wilfred Thesiger

Wilfred Thesiger was born in Addis Ababa in 1910 and educated at Eton and Oxford.
A Vanished World

A Vanished World

Wilfred Thesiger

"Wilfred Thesiger's superb portraits of tribal peoples have earned him worldwide recognition as a photographer.
Wilfred Thesiger in Africa

Wilfred Thesiger in Africa

Alexander Maitland

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.
The Marsh Arabs

The Marsh Arabs

Wilfred Thesiger

During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries.
Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer

Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer

Alexander Maitland

'A Journey in Nuristan', Geographical Journal CXXIII (4), 1957 'Marsh Dwellers of Southern Iraq', National Geographic Magazine CXIII (2): 205– 39, February 1958 BOOKS BY WILFRED THESIGER Arabian Sands, Longmans 1959 The Marsh ...
Arabian Sands

Arabian Sands

Wilfred Thesiger

Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia.
My Kenya Days

My Kenya Days

Wilfred Thesiger

Following on from the author's autobiography, The Life of My Choice, this book provides a record of Thesiger's 30 years in Kenya.
The Danakil diary: journeys through Abyssinia, 1930-34

The Danakil diary: journeys through Abyssinia, 1930-34

Wilfred Thesiger

A vivid, compelling narrative, The Danakil Diary records how the young Thesiger surmounted overwhelming obstacles and survived the constant threat of death and mutilation by the Danakil, warriors whose tribal status depended on the number ...
Across the Empty Quarter

Across the Empty Quarter

Wilfred Thesiger

Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.
The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen

The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen

For most readers of English poetry, the face under the helmet is that of Wilfred Owen. EARLY YEARS Wilfred Edward Salter Owen was born in Oswestry on t8 March 1893. His parents were then living in a spacious and comfortable house ...
Wilfred

Wilfred

Ryan Higgins

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there lived a humongous and hairy giant named Wilfred. Whenever people saw him, they ran away, which made life very lonely for Wilfred.
Wilfred's Wolf

Wilfred's Wolf

Jenny Millward

Every day Wilfred took the wolf to work at The Plush. And every evening Shirley and the wolf would play together in Wilfred's back garden. Sometimes they all went for a midnight stroll on the common and if ever the wolf felt like howling at the ...
William Wilfred Campbell: Selected Poetry and Essays

William Wilfred Campbell: Selected Poetry and Essays

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INTRODUCTION Wilfred Campbell: His Life and Letters Early in his career, Wilfred Campbell was celebrated as the Laureate of the Lakes and the Poet Laureate of Canada. In a sense, such effusions must be taken seriously. Like an official ...
A preface to Wilfred Owen

A preface to Wilfred Owen

John Arthur Purkis

This text seeks to understand how the poet Wilfred Owen fits into the poetic debate about the meaning of war.
Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen

Jon Stallworthy

Arriving in London,Wilfred Owen booked rooms for himself and the boys at the Regent Palace Hotel in a blacked-out PiccadillytThe following clay they went to Padding-ton but, finding there was no connection from Bath to Downside. returned ...
The Poems of Wilfred Owen

The Poems of Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen

This volume contains all of Owen's best known work, only four of which were published in his lifetime.
Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen

Guy Cuthbertson

One of Britain’s best-known and most loved poets, Wilfred Owen (1893–1918) was killed at age 25 on one of the last days of the First World War, having acted heroically as soldier and officer despite his famous misgivings about the war's ...
Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen

Barry Spurr

Wilfred Edward Saltcr Owen was bom at Oswestry, an English market town on the Welsh border, on 18 March 1893. He was the son of a mother ambitious for her children and a father with a taste for adventure (stimulated in his younger ...
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen

The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen

This definitive edition of Owen's poetry, based on a close study of the ms. sources in the British Museum and elsewhere, contains a selection of the poet's juvenilia and several other unpublished poems, as well as those which have appeared ...
Rupert Brooke & Wilfred Owen

Rupert Brooke & Wilfred Owen

Rupert Brooke

--From Wilfred Owen's Futility Here are the unforgettable works of two British poets who chronicled The Great War, but never lived to see its end.
Wisdom, Gods and Literature: Studies in Assyriology in ...

Wisdom, Gods and Literature: Studies in Assyriology in ...

Wilfred G. Lambert

Studies in Assyriology in Honour of W.G. Lambert Wilfred G. Lambert, A. R. George, Irving L. Finkel ... Kevelaer/Neukirchen-Vluyn, 1978 G. Cagirgan, "The Babylonian Festivals." Ph.D. dissertation, Univ. of Birmingham, 1975 Mark E. Cohen, ...
Soybean diseases

Soybean diseases

Howard Wilfred Johnson

Howard Wilfred Johnson, Donald William Chamberlain, Samuel George Lehman. Table I. ... Diseases to which varieties are resistant Available resistant varieties 2 IBaclerial bligbt Flambeau and Hawkeye. j Stem canker Harosoy. {Bacterial ...
Alfalfa Diseases

Alfalfa Diseases

Howard Wilfred Johnson

Howard Wilfred Johnson.
War Poems And Others

War Poems And Others

Wilfred Owen

The complete edition of Wilfred Owen's, War Poems and Others.
Travellers to the Middle East from Burckhardt to Thesiger: ...

Travellers to the Middle East from Burckhardt to Thesiger: ...

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An invaluable compendium of writing on the Middle East including extracts from canonical and less well known travellers' works.

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