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Across the Empty Quarter by Wilfred Thesiger
17.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
Restless, gripped by an overwhelming wish to make a name for himself in a world ever more hemmed in by progress and 'civilization', Thesiger (1910-2003) embarked on his amazing journeys across Saudi Arabia's Empty Quarter to test himself and to show what could still be done. The result was a monument bo ...Show more
Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger
74.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Wilfred Thesiger charts the time he spent living with the Bedu, including his legendary traverses of the Empty Quarter. His prose and photographs capture the spirit of the proud tribespeople who became his friends and the harsh landscape he inhabited with them in a way very few westeners have.
Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger
27.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
The author recounts his travels in the Empty Quarter of Arabia between 1945 and 1950, and describes the vanishing way of life of the Bedouins.
Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger; Rory Stewart (Foreword by, Introduction by)
23.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Wilfred Thesiger charts the time he spent living with the Bedu, including his legendary traverses of the Empty Quarter. Wilfred Thesiger is the last of the great British eccentric explorers, a legendary figure renowned for his travels though some of the most inaccessible places on earth. Arabian Sands w ...Show more
My Life and Travels:An Anthology by Wilfred Thesiger
29.99 NZD
34.95 (14% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
At the age of 23, three years after attending the coronation of Haile Selassie, Thesiger made his first expedition into the country of the murderous Danakil tribe. Since then he has traversed the Empty Quarter twice, spending five years among the Bedu, followed by several years living as no Westerner ha ...Show more
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