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Title Page

Dedication

THESIGER FAMILY (1722-2005)

INTRODUCTION

ONE The Emperor Menelik’s ‘New Flower’

TWO Hope and Fortune

THREE Gorgeous Barbarity

FOUR ‘One Handsome Rajah’

FIVE Passages to India and England

SIX The Cold, Bleak English Downs

SEVEN Eton: Lasting Respect and Veneration

EIGHT Shrine of my Youth

NINE The Mountains of Arussi

TEN Across the Sultanate ofAussa

ELEVEN Savage Sudan

TWELVE The Nuer

THIRTEEN Rape of my Homeland

FOURTEEN Among the Druze

FIFTEEN The Flowering Desert

SIXTEEN Palestine: Shifting Lights and Shades

SEVENTEEN Prelude to Arabia

EIGHTEEN Arabian Sands

NINETEEN Marsh and Mountain

TWENTY Among the Mountains

TWENTY-ONE A Winter in Copenhagen

TWENTY-TWO Camel Journeys to the Jade Sea

TWENTY-THREE With Nomadic Tribes in Other Lands

TWENTY-FOUR Kenya Days

EPILOGUE

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Praise

By the same author

Copyright

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