The earliest and most influential expeditions of the man now
considered to be the greatest living explorer. The Danakil Diary is
the account of two journeys Thesiger made into the Danakil country
in Abyssinia, now Ethiopia, in 1930-34 at the age of 24 - which,
today, he still regards as the most dangerous he undertook. It was
an extraordinary journey and a remarkable achievement. Thesiger
succeeded in penetrating country that had wiped out two Italian
expeditions and an Egyptian army before him, discovered what
happened to the Awash River (one of the area's last geographical
mysteries to be solved) and managed to survive amongst the Danakil
tribesmen, to whom a man's status depended on the number of men he
had killed and castrated. Besides giving early proof of Thesiger's
descriptive genius - with his portrayal of the beautiful, savage
landscapes, and their varied wildlife - The Danakil Diary reveals
youthful evidence of his fierce motivation and uncompromising will,
which are familiar hallmarks of his sixty years of travel among
primitive peoples in some of the harshest and remotest areas of the
world.
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