Across the Empty Quarter
Thesiger Wilfred
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Editeur - Casa editrice |
Penguin Books Ltd
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Medio Oriente
Oman
Arabia
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Anno - Date de Parution |
2007
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Pagine - Pages
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96
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Lingua - language - langue
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english
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Across the Empty Quarter
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Recensione in altra lingua (English): |
An engaging and exciting tale, well told but quite obviously an extract from a larger work (Arabian Sands); it ends on a cliffhanger and refers frequently to people, places and events that have obviously been expanded upon in earlier parts of the original. Allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. |
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Biografia |
Wilfred Thesiger nacque ad Addis Abeba nel 1910 e studiò a Eton e Oxford. Nel 1935 fece parte del Sudan Political Service e quando scoppiò la guerra venne distaccato alla Sudan Defence Force. Dopo la guerra viaggiò nel Kurdistan, nel sud dell`Irak, in Marocco, in Africa centrale e orientale. Tra le sue opere ricordiamo Sabbie arabe (Neri Pozza 2002), Desert, Marsh and Mountain: The World of a Nomad, The Life of my Choice e Visions of a Nomad. |
Consulta anche:
Thesinger on BBC (8') da YouTube
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Consulta anche:
Milord a spasso con i babbuini - Stefano Malatesta su Repubblica
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