Life Of My Choice - Brossura

Wilfred, Thesiger

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0393334252 ISBN 13: 9780393334258

Casa editrice: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1980

Riassunto

The author recounts his long association with Abyssinia, now Ethiopia, where he was born, and describes the history, culture, and customs of the nomadic tribes of the region

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Wilfred Thesiger is the last of the great British eccentric explorers, renowned for his travels through some of the most inaccessible places on earth. As a child in Abyssinia he watched the glorious armies of Ras Tafari returning from hand-to-hand battle, their prisoners in chains; at the age of 23 he made his first expedition into the country of the Danakil, a murderous race among whom a man's status in the tribe depended on the number of men he had killed and castrated. His books, "Arabian Sands" and "The Marsh Arabs," tell of his two sojourns in the Empty Quarter and the Marshes of Southern Iraq. In this autobiography, Wilfred Thesiger highlights the people who most profoundly influenced him and the events which enabled him to lead the life of his choice.

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• Editore: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc.
• Data di pubblicazione: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0393334252
• ISBN 13: 9780393334258
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 492