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NONFICTION: Maugham, Ted Morgan Philosophy and Public Policy, Sidney Hook * Show People, Kenneth Tynan * The Last Nomad, Wilfred Thesiger * The Life of Katherine Mansfield, Antony Alpers * Thirty Seconds, Michael J. Arlen
NONFICTION: And No Birds Sang, Farley Mowat ∙Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Carl E. Schorske Maugham, Ted Morgan ∙Misia, Arthur Gold & Robert Fizdale ∙Show People, Kenneth Tynan ∙The Last Nomad, Wilfred Thesiger ∙The Return of Eva Perón, V.S. Naipaul
NONFICTION: And No Birds Sang, Farley Mowat ∙Dreams in the Mirror, Richard S. Kennedy ∙Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Carl E. Schorske Maugham, Ted Morgan ∙Misia, Arthur Gold & Robert Fizdale ∙Show People, Kenneth Tynan ∙The Last Nomad, Wilfred Thesiger
...LAST NOMAD by Wilfred Thesiger; Dutton; 304 pages...
...Last Nomad recaps these earlier works in text and photos, and then pushes on into Persia, Kurdistan, Afghanistan, the mountains of the Hindu Kush and the rocky heights of the Yemen. After 20 years, Thesiger's words and photographs maintain a clarity and freshness rarely found in books of this type. Everything is confronted directly and, though there is sameness, there are no clichés. There is even an occasional touch of Kipling in his prose: "Above the village the scant ruins of a castle sat on a fang of rock, accessible only by a precarious path above...