WILFRED THESIGER

Wilfred Thesiger pasó cinco años en el peor desierto del mundo, el del sur de Arabia , compartiendo con los beduinos el diario afán de vencer el hambre y la sed, de superar las marchas interminables bajo un sol despiadado y sobrevivir a las noches gélidas y al peligro mortal de que se descubriese su carácter ‘infiel’, es decir, su...

240 p. : il. ; 23x15 cm

Wilfred Thesiger was born in Addis Ababa in 1910 and educated at Eton and Oxford. In the spirit of T. E. Lawrence, Thesiger spent five years exploring and wandering the deserts of Arabia. With vivid descriptions and colourful anecdotes he narrates his stories, including two crossings of the Empty Quarter, among peoples who had never seen a Europ...