Wilfred Thesiger
Born
in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
June 03, 1910
Died
August 24, 2003
Genre
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Arabian Sands
89 editions
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published
1959
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The Marsh Arabs
by
54 editions
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published
1964
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The Life of My Choice
18 editions
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published
1987
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Across the Empty Quarter
5 editions
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published
2007
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Among the Mountains: Travels Through Asia
3 editions
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published
1998
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Desert, Marsh and Mountain: The World of a Nomad
12 editions
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published
1979
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A Vanished World
7 editions
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published
2001
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The Danakil Diary: Journeys Through Abyssinia, 1930 - 34
4 editions
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published
1996
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My Kenya Days
5 editions
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published
1994
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My Life and Travels
4 editions
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published
2002
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“I had learnt the satisfaction which comes from hardship and the pleasure which derives from abstinence; the contentment of a full belly; the richness of meat; the taste of clean water; the ecstasy of surrender when the craving of sleep becomes a torment; the warmth of a fire in the chill of dawn.”
― Arabian Sands
― Arabian Sands
“In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an encumbrance. I had found too, a comradeship inherent in the circumstances, and the belief that tranquility was to be found there.”
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“No man can live this life 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 the yearning to return, weak or insistent according to his nature. For this cruel land can cast a spell which no temperate clime can match.”
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