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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
LC control number |
2006411064 |
015 ## - NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER |
National bibliography number |
GBA598262 |
Source |
bnb |
016 7# - NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC AGENCY CONTROL NUMBER |
Record control number |
013342291 |
Source |
Uk |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
1860631991(Gulf ed. ;hbk.) |
024 3# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER |
Standard number or code |
9781860631993 (Gulf ed. ;hbk.) |
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
System control number |
(OCoLC)ocm62343916 |
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
Original cataloging agency |
UKM |
Transcribing agency |
UKM |
Modifying agency |
BWKUK |
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DLC |
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
Classification number |
DS207 |
Item number |
.M25 2006 |
090 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED LC-TYPE CALL NUMBER (OCLC); LOCAL CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
Classification number (OCLC) (R) ; Classification number, CALL (RLIN) (NR) |
DS 207 .M25 2006 |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Maitland, Alexander. |
9 (RLIN) |
118301 |
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
Wilfred Thesiger : |
Remainder of title |
the life of the great explorer / |
Statement of responsibility, etc |
Alexander Maitland. |
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
Edition statement |
1st Gulf ed. |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Dubai, UAE : |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Motivate Pub., |
Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2006. |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
xv, 526 p., [24] p. of plates : |
Other physical details |
ill., maps ; |
Dimensions |
24 cm. |
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
General note |
Originally published: London: HarperCollins, 2006. |
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 499-508) and index. |
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
Formatted contents note |
The Emperor Menelik's new flower -- Hope and fortune -- Gorgeous barbarity -- One handsome Rajah -- Passages to India and England -- the cold, bleak English downs -- Eton: lasting respect and veneration -- Shrine of my youth -- The mountatins of Arussi -- Across the sultanate of Aussa -- Savage Sudan -- The nuer -- Rape of my homeland -- Among the Druze -- the flowering desert -- Palestine: shifting lights and shades -- Prelude to Arabia -- Arabian sands -- Marsh and mountain -- Among the mountains -- A winter in Copenhagen -- Camel journeysto the Jade sea -- With nomadic tribes in other lands -- Kenya days. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc |
"A legend in his own lifetime (1910-2003), the explorer and traveller Wilfred Thesiger journeyed for sixty years in some of the remotest, most dangerous places on earth. His books, including Arabian Sands, The Marsh Arabs and The Life of My Choice, are widely acclaimed, yet - evocative though these are - his character and motivations have remained to this day an intriguing enigma." "Now his close friend and literary executor, Alexander Maitland, who has had exclusive access to letters, diaries and manuscripts containing a wealth of previously unpublished information, sheds new light on almost every aspect of Thesiger's life and travels. Maitland's biography re-examines Thesiger's influential, blissfully happy upbringing in Addis Ababa; his harsh experiences at a preparatory school; his years at Eton, when he first met the future Abyssinian emperor, Haile Selassie, whose coronation he later attended; and his idealised memories of Oxford." "Thesiger's letters and diaries offer fresh insights into his 1933-34 Danakil expedition, his earliest desert travels and thrilling lion hunts in the Sudan. Others contain often dramatic, emotional descriptions of Thesiger's wartime service in Abyssinia under Orde Wingate, in Syria with SOE and with the SAS in North Africa. Maitland explores the background to Thesiger's Arabian journeys, his sojourns in the Iraqi Marshes and his travels among the mountains of western Asia, as well as his relationships with tribesmen from many lands, his sexuality, his loyal and sometimes turbulent friendships and his precious relationship with his mother, whom he adored and upon whose devoted encouragement and support he could always depend." "Authentic and revealing, Maitland's biography of Thesiger separates the man from the myth. It shows him to be compassionate, determined, egocentric, fiercely resilient, yet surprisingly vulnerable, an engaging personality made complex by a mass of often extreme contradictions."--BOOK JACKET. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc. |
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Thesiger, Wilfred, |
Dates associated with a name |
1910- |
General subdivision |
Travel |
Form subdivision |
Pictorial works. |
9 (RLIN) |
38157 |
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
Geographic name |
Arabian Peninsula |
General subdivision |
Description and travel. |
9 (RLIN) |
118302 |
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
Geographic name |
Africa, North |
General subdivision |
Description and travel. |
9 (RLIN) |
118303 |
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