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The Life of My Choice Hardcover, ISBN 0393025136
Publisher: W.W. Norton, New York, 1987
Used – Fine. 1st prtg indicated by # series on copyright pg. Light yellow boards, brwn quarter-cloth spine, unclipped color portrait dj, all exc unread, as new cond; 12 b/w maps, 2 sections b/w photos, 459 pp. Size: 6.5″-9.5″; includes dustjacket (MEMOIR, THESIGER, ABYSSINIA, ARABIAN PENINSULA)
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.