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As an indication of its difficulty , by the end fourteen of Thesiger's eighteen camels were dead . Thesiger wrote an account of the expedition for the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society ( January 1935 ) and prepared a checklist ...
As an indication of its difficulty , by the end fourteen of Thesiger's eighteen camels were dead . Thesiger wrote an account of the expedition for the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society ( January 1935 ) and prepared a checklist ...
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Reminded that , in the Marshes and elsewhere , he carried medical supplies and performed operations , Thesiger shrugged : " When it comes down to it and you get among a primitive people and you find that they are suffering from trachoma ...
Reminded that , in the Marshes and elsewhere , he carried medical supplies and performed operations , Thesiger shrugged : " When it comes down to it and you get among a primitive people and you find that they are suffering from trachoma ...
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Although Thesiger's account of The Marsh Arabs is by far the more authoritative ( besides , like its predecessor , being a beautifully written evocation of life in the Marshes ) , Maxwell , in A Reed Shaken by the Wind ( 1957 ) ...
Although Thesiger's account of The Marsh Arabs is by far the more authoritative ( besides , like its predecessor , being a beautifully written evocation of life in the Marshes ) , Maxwell , in A Reed Shaken by the Wind ( 1957 ) ...
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