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A Corps of the SDF, whose headquarters was at Gedaref, and A from there I was
sent as second-in-command to Arthur Hanks's company on the frontier at Galabat
, where Emperor John of Abyssinia had been killed fifty years earlier in the ...
A Corps of the SDF, whose headquarters was at Gedaref, and A from there I was
sent as second-in-command to Arthur Hanks's company on the frontier at Galabat
, where Emperor John of Abyssinia had been killed fifty years earlier in the ...
Page 336
Wingate arrived at Dembecha during the day, with the Frontier Force, the only
effective formation he now had with which to capture Debra Markos. Intermittent
fighting went on throughout the day and Captain Harris, one of Boustead's
company ...
Wingate arrived at Dembecha during the day, with the Frontier Force, the only
effective formation he now had with which to capture Debra Markos. Intermittent
fighting went on throughout the day and Captain Harris, one of Boustead's
company ...
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I had never previously crossed the Euphrates into the Jazirah; now I motored
along two hundred miles of the Turkish frontier to the Tigris. This frontier marked
the limit of the ancient Arab conquests: beyond it the wave of Arab invasions ...
I had never previously crossed the Euphrates into the Jazirah; now I motored
along two hundred miles of the Turkish frontier to the Tigris. This frontier marked
the limit of the ancient Arab conquests: beyond it the wave of Arab invasions ...
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User Review - theonearmedcrab - LibraryThingA classic travelogue, plus a whole lot more, is “Life of my choice” (1987), by William Thesiger, who was born in Addis Ababa into a diplomat’s family, and went on to travel the country, and much ... Read full review
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Contents
List of Maps | 11 |
Introduction | 15 |
FAMILY AND ABYSSINIA 191033 | 17 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The life of my choice |
| Author | Wilfred Thesiger |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Collins, 1987 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 1 Oct 2008 |
| ISBN | 000216194X, 9780002161947 |
| Length | 459 pages |
| Subjects | › Adventure and adventurers Biography & Autobiography / Adventurers & Explorers Ethiopia Explorers Middle East Sudan Travel / Essays & Travelogues Travel / General Travelers |
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