
The Life of My Choice
Wilfred Thesiger(Author)
WW Norton & Co (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 30. July 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
492 pages
978-0-393-33425-8 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
792 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-33425-8 (9780393334258)
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