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Wilfred Thesiger: A Life in Pictures
Wilfred ThesigerSir 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
Wilfred ThesigerThis 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
Wilfred ThesigerWilfred Thesiger was born in Addis Ababa in 1910 and educated at Eton and Oxford.
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
Alexander MaitlandA 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
Wilfred ThesigerDuring 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
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
Wilfred ThesigerArabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia.
My Kenya Days
Wilfred ThesigerFollowing 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
Wilfred ThesigerA 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
Wilfred ThesigerReading 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
Wilfred OwenFor 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
Ryan HigginsOnce 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
Jenny MillwardEvery 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
PreviewINTRODUCTION 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
John Arthur PurkisThis text seeks to understand how the poet Wilfred Owen fits into the poetic debate about the meaning of war.
Wilfred Owen
Jon StallworthyArriving 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
Wilfred OwenThis volume contains all of Owen's best known work, only four of which were published in his lifetime.
Wilfred Owen
Guy CuthbertsonOne 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
Barry SpurrWilfred 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
Wilfred OwenThis 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--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 ...
Wilfred G. LambertStudies 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
Howard Wilfred JohnsonHoward 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 ...
Travellers to the Middle East from Burckhardt to Thesiger: ...
PreviewAn invaluable compendium of writing on the Middle East including extracts from canonical and less well known travellers' works.
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