THE DANAKIL DIARY Wilfred Thesiger - Journeys Through Abyssinia (Ethopia / Africa)

A surprisingly rare travel classic by a legendary writer.

This is a used travel book in good condition: clean with light reading wear; pages are clean and tanning lightly with age. See photos for cover blurb and sample pages. The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!

Publisher's blurb: The earliest and most influential expeditions of the man now considered to be the greatest living explorer. The Danakil Diary is the account of two journeys Thesiger made into the Danakil country in Abyssinia, now Ethiopia, in 1930-34 at the age of 24 — which, today, he still regards as the most dangerous he undertook. It was an extraordinary journey and a remarkable achievement. Thesiger succeeded in penetrating country that had wiped out two Italian expeditions and an Egyptian army before him, discovered what happened to the Awash River (one of the area's last geographical mysteries to be solved) and managed to survive amongst the Danakil tribesmen, to whom a man's status depended on the number of men he had killed and castrated. Besides giving early proof of Thesiger's descriptive genius — with his portrayal of the beautiful, savage landscapes, and their varied wildlife — The Danakil Diary reveals youthful evidence of his fierce motivation and uncompromising will, which are familiar hallmarks of his sixty years of travel among primitive peoples in some of the harshest and remotest areas of the world.

Book Details

Code: SKU1511

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 214

Published: 1998 by Flamingo, UK

ISBN: 0006387756

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