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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xii, 354 pages, 1 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations (1 color), maps ; 24 cm
Description
Explores the landscape of the author's home on the borderland between England and Scotland--known as the Marches--and the history, people, and conflicts that have shaped it.
In The Places in Between, Rory Stewart walked some of the most dangerous borderlands in the world. Now he travels with his 89-year-old father--a comical, wily courageous, and infuriating former British intelligence officer--along the border they call home. On Stewart's 400-mile...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
xvii, 347 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 20 cm.
Description
Born in Addis Ababa in 1910 and educated in England, from 1945 Wilfred Thesiger spent five years exploring in and around the vast, waterless desert, the 'Empty Quarter' of Arabia. Travelling amongst the Bedu people, he experienced their everyday challenges of hunger and thirst, the trials of long marches beneath the relentless sun, the bitterly cold nights and the constant danger of death if it was discovered he was a Christian 'infidel'. He was the...
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