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by: Wilfred Thesiger
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
EAN: 9780006383925
ISBN: 0006383920
Label: HarperCollins Publishers
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 159
Publication Date: 1995-01
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Sales Rank: 1598661
Studio: HarperCollins Publishers
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Product Description:
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. Drawn by the lure of what was formerly Kenya's Nothern Frontier District, with its varied wildlife and distinctive nomadic tribes, Thesiger spent many years as an Honorary Game Warden leading anti-poaching patrols. He describes Kenya's northern tribes - Rendille warriors dancing by moolight, Turkana in pursuit of buffalo and an account of Samburu moran during their initiation ceremonies.
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Rating: - Disappointed
I waited a long time to read this book, therefore I was very disappointed with the outcome. Pages of name dropping and casual references to animals and tribes. There was no meat or thread of interest to carry the reader through this literal journey. Compared to his other books this was a bomb.
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