Playing on the boundaries: a childhood across cultural and geographical lines

This is not a conventional paper. It is a personal narrative. It is subjective not only to its author but to the child-self of the author. It is not a detached academic look at a personal history. In fact it could be described more as ‘archaeological’ than historical; an examination of what appears to be a random collection of fragments of a personal history, found in memory and artefacts of a childhood. The telling of the story is an attempt to understand the development and trajectory of an individual identity across geographical, cultural, and religious boundaries. It is not the whole story, but it gives the writer and the reader a few selected pieces of the full picture

Wilfred Thesiger's photographs A 'most cherished possession'

Catalogue from an exhibition at Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford Univ. 16 Jun 1993 - 27 Feb 1994Available from British Library Document Supply Centre- DSC:94/20708 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited Kingdo