Wilfred Thesiger is one of the great explorers of this century. However, he is unique in that, unlike any of the other great travellers and writers of the past - T.E. Lawrence, Doughty, Burton and Livingstone - he had the opportunity, and developed the skill, to take photographs which do more than complement his achievements. While he has wondered at the landscapes, the buildings and the animals of so many distant places, and held them unforgettably in his lens, it is the people and their daily life which are paramount in ...
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Wilfred Thesiger is one of the great explorers of this century. However, he is unique in that, unlike any of the other great travellers and writers of the past - T.E. Lawrence, Doughty, Burton and Livingstone - he had the opportunity, and developed the skill, to take photographs which do more than complement his achievements. While he has wondered at the landscapes, the buildings and the animals of so many distant places, and held them unforgettably in his lens, it is the people and their daily life which are paramount in this recollection of times past. This is partly because Thesiger has always found the greatest reward, not in remoteness for its own sake, but in the companionship he found there. It is also true because the assembly of portraits is unrepeatable - quite simply the way in which people lived, moved and had their being has irrevocably vanished. The last 50 years has destroyed forever the inheritance of the previous 500. From the many thousands of photographs taken over 50 years - with a Leica camera, protected from sand, frost or the miasma of the marshes in its goat-skin bag - Thesiger has chosen for this book those photographs which most satisfy him. Here are some rarely seen images from his Asian travels, images of Africa where he has now lived for almost 25 years, a mixture of familiar and unknown pictures of the Arab world in which he found himself most at home. Wilfred Thesiger is the author of "Arabian Sands", "The Marsh Arabs" and "The Life of My Choice".
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Add this copy of Visions of a Nomad to cart. $15.71, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1993 by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1350grams, ISBN: 9780002177290.
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Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 0002177293. Tight unmarked book in clean brown cloth; in dust jacket with touches of edgewear.; 9 x 11.5"; 224 pages.
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F- in F- jacket. F-/F-. 4to. original brown boards gilt (a trifle rubbed & bumped, occ. faint toning) in unpriced dustwrapper (a trifle rubbed & nicked); pp. 224, with numerous illustrations. Heavy item (1.8 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A near fine copy.
Add this copy of Visions of a Nomad to cart. $55.97, new condition, Sold by Kenya Books - Kenya & Africa rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Brighton, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1993 by Collins.
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New. No Jacket. PB, large format 220 x 285 mm, 2nd imp. 223pp, NEW Some of Thesiger's favorite photos from Africa, the Arab world, & Asia. Beautifully produced collection by one of the best photographers of Kenya, and "one of the last of the great gentlemen explorer-adventurers ". Pictorial Boards. CB24.
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VG+ in VG+ jacket. VG+/VG+. 4to. original brown boards gilt (a little rubbed & bumped) in dustwrapper priced £20 net (a little rubbed & nicked); pp. 224, with numerous illustrations. Heavy item (1.8 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy.
