wyszukanych pozycji: 8
The Danakil Diary
ISBN: 9780006387756 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The earliest and most influential expeditions of the man now considered to be the greatest living explorer. The Danakil Diary is the account of two journeys Thesiger made into the Danakil country in Abyssinia, now Ethiopia, in 1930-34 at the age of 24 - which, today, he still regards as the most dangerous he undertook. It was an extraordinary journey and a remarkable achievement. Thesiger succeeded in penetrating country that had wiped out two Italian expeditions and an Egyptian army before him, discovered what happened to the Awash River (one of the area's last geographical... The earliest and most influential expeditions of the man now considered to be the greatest living explorer. The Danakil Diary is the account ... |
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My Kenya Days
ISBN: 9780006383925 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Following on from the author's autobiography, The Life of My Choice, this book provides a record of Thesiger's 30 years in Kenya. Since his first visit to Kenya in 1960, Thesiger has made a series of long journeys on foot with camels to Lake Turkana, Marsabit and other remote areas.
Following on from the author's autobiography, The Life of My Choice, this book provides a record of Thesiger's 30 years in Kenya. Since his first visi...
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86,06 zł |
Among the Mountains: Travels Through Asia
ISBN: 9780006551003 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Wilfred Thesiger, this century's greatest living explorer, recalls his travels among the mountain ranges of Asia.
Wilfred Thesiger, this century's greatest living explorer, recalls his travels among the mountain ranges of Asia.
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55,97 zł |
The Life of My Choice
ISBN: 9780006372677 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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...
Wilfred Thesiger is the last of the great British eccentric explorers, renowned for his travels through some of the most inaccessible places on earth....
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94,67 zł |
The Life of My Choice
ISBN: 9780393334258 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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... 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 2... |
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129,15 zł |
My Life and Travels : An Anthology
ISBN: 9780006552123 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An anthology of writings and photographs celebrating the outstanding contribution of one of the country's most distinguished and enduring travel writers, and the century's greatest living explorer.
An anthology of writings and photographs celebrating the outstanding contribution of one of the country's most distinguished and enduring travel write...
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86,06 zł |
The Marsh Arabs
ISBN: 9780141442082 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. "Five thousand years of history were here and the pattern was still unchanged."
During 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. Travelling from village to village by canoe, he won acceptance by dispensing medicines and treating the sick. In this account of his time there, he pays tribute to the hospitality, loyalty, courage and endurance of the people, describes their impressive reed houses, the waterways and lakes teeming with wildlife, the herding of buffalo... "Five thousand years of history were here and the pattern was still unchanged."
During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of souther... |
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66,14 zł |
Arabian Sands
ISBN: 9780141442075 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 347 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. "Following worthily in the tradition of Burton, Lawrence, Philby and Thomas, Arabian Sands] is, very likely, the book about Arabia to end all books about Arabia." --The Daily Telegraph
Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life--"the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets." In the spirit of T. E. Lawrence, he set out to explore the deserts of Arabia,... "Following worthily in the tradition of Burton, Lawrence, Philby and Thomas, Arabian Sands] is, very likely, the book about Arabia to end a...
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55,97 zł |