by Manuel Leguineche · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432208843
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«El último explorador» is the biography of Wilfred Thesiger written by Manuel Leguineche, published by Seix Barral in paperback (360 pages, in Spanish).
The book follows the life of Wilfred Thesiger, a British explorer born in 1910 and educated at Eton and Oxford, who devoted his life to crossing the desert and living among its people. The narrative covers his travels through Ethiopia, Sudan and Arabia, his participation in World War II and his years with the tribes of the Iraqi marshes. Leguineche, also a traveler and journalist, reconstructs Thesiger's legendary character and his work as a witness to vanishing worlds, preserved in his photographs and travel books.
Work originally published in 2004, in the Los Tres Mundos collection of Seix Barral. The subtitle of the work is «la vida de Wilfred Thesiger» and its cover includes the mention «Biografía».
Recommended for readers interested in biographies of explorers, travel literature and the history of the twentieth century.
Manuel Leguineche Bollar, better known as Manu Leguineche, was a Spanish correspondent, journalist and writer. He was born in Arratzu, Biscay. He was one of the contributors of Doblón magazine from 1974 to 1976. He founded the Spanish news agencies Colpisa and Fax Press. He divorced from Rosa María Mateo.
