£100
Wilfred Thesiger: 'The Life of My Choice', New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1988, 1st US edition, signed & inscribed by Thesiger on title page "James Liddiard, looking forward to seeing you in Maralal. June 2nd 1991. Wilfred Thesiger", numerous b/w maps & illustrations from photographs as called for, original quarter cloth gilt, dust wrapper ($25 price intact).
Thesiger's autobiography, which describes his childhood in Abyssinia, his military service during World War II in Abyssinia under Wingate and in the Western Desert under David Stirling in the SAS, and his later travels. As Sir John Glubb commented, Thesiger was 'perhaps the last, and certainly one of the greatest, of the British travellers among the Arabs' (ODNB). From 1978 Thesiger lived for nine months of each year in Maralal, Kenya, before retiring permanently to England in 1994.
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