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作       者:Warwick Cairns

出  版  社:The Friday Project

出版时间:2010-10-28

字       数:25.3万

所属分类: 进口书 > 外文原版书 > 家居/园艺/旅游

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One man’s journey in the footsteps of a great explorer into the heart of Africa. As a young man, Warwick Cairns met the then elderly explorer Wilfred Thesiger and the two men struck up an unlikely friendship. Invited to visit him at his African home, Cairns decides to make a bit of an adventure of it and do some of the journey on foot. When he himself was a young man, Thesiger led an expedition to explore the course of the Awash river in Ethiopia. Every westerner that had gone before him had been killed by local tribesmen. Needless to say, he survived. Alternating chapters chart Warwick’s journey with that of Thesiger creating a captivating dual narrative that is part travel book, part biography, part autobiography, part history with fair doses of philosophy and humour thrown in for good measure. In Praise of Savagery is a highly original book that defies classification but is always effortlessly readable.
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Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

A Man Between Two Worlds

Cheques and Balances

Sultan of Aussa

Harlow New Town

The Emperor’s Gift

Don’t Tell Others

The Clinic

Preparations

The Awash Station

Aeroflot

Raiders of the Dressing-up Box

You Can Run But You Can’t Hide

An Interrupted Journey

The River-Plain of Bahdu

A Letter

To the North

Kibiriti

Upon the Etiquette of Massacre

Preparations

The Worst Restaurant in the World

Addis Ababa

Chukana is Indisposed

The Water-Song and the Camel-Men

Upon Human Nature, and Goats

A Question of Responsibility

The Great Explorer

A Blessing

The Hangadaala Takes a Walk

Deep Water

In the Midday Sun

A Collective Decision

Built for Miserable Weather

The Wells at Intahe

Four Days at Gewani

Elsewhere

Incidents on the Slopes of Mount Kulal

Upon Sleep, Pleasure and Duty

Into Hostile Territory

Telling the Sheep from the Goats

The Silver Baton of Command

Playing British Bulldog for a Bride

The Sultan’s Vizier

A Magnificent Bearded Loon

A Fish Supper

The Still Point of the Turning World

A Surfeit of Shoes

The Giving and Receiving of Gifts

The Anticipation of Fruit

Through the Land of Aussa

The Oasis

Fulfilment’s Desolate Attic

Back to Maralal

Civilisation

The Years in Between

The Old Man, Up There

Life

To the Modern World

What Is Your Tribe?

Our Dead Through Whom We Live

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Also by Warwick Cairns

Copyright

About the Publisher

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