A Vanished World

by Wilfred Thesiger

Wilfred Thesiger's photography career started during a hunting expedition to Ethiopia at age twenty. Three years later he returned to explore the Awash River and photograph the ferocious Danakil, who were reputed to mutilate any traveler they encountered. In the Sudan he photographed the Muslim tribes in Northern Darfur, pagan Nuer in the Western Nile swamps, and magnificent Nuba wrestlers. The visual drama of Arabia's deserts was the backdrop to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393050866
• ISBN13: 9780393050868
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.1" x 11.3"