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The life of my choice / Wilfred Thesiger

A memoir detailing a life of travel and military service, from childhood in Abyssinia to explorations of the Danakil and Libyan deserts. It documents time with the Sudan Political Service and wartime missions with the SAS in the Western Desert.

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Accession Number: 18540

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