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The Danakil Diary

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Availability:In StockContributor:Wilfred ThesigerPublish date:1998-02-16Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:FlamingoISBN-13:9780006387756ISBN-10:6387756UPC:9780006387756Book Category:Travel, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Africa, Essays & Travelogues, MemoirsSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.66 inchesWeight:0.5313Product ID:SCQ4ZDCEKW

The Danakil Diary

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...

Language:EnglishPublisher:FlamingoISBN-13:9780006387756ISBN-10:6387756UPC:9780006387756Book Category:Travel, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Africa, Essays & Travelogues, MemoirsSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.66 inchesWeight:0.5313Product ID:SCQ4ZDCEKW

The Danakil journeys were Thesiger's first major expeditions. He served during the war with the SAS and was awarded the DSO. He has travelled in Southern Arabia, Kurdistan, Iraq, the Hindu Kush, the Karakorams, Morocco, Abyssinia, Kenya and Tanganyika. His journeys have won him many medals, and in 1968 he was made CBE. He was honoured with a KBE in 1995.


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