My Kenya Days

Following on from the author's autobiography, The Life of My Choice, this book provides a fascinating record of Thesiger's 30 years in Kenya. Since his first visit in 1960, he made a series of long journeys on foot with camels to Lake Turkana, Marsabit and other remote areas of this extraordinary country.

Drawn by the lure of what was formerly Kenya's Northern Frontier District, with its varied wildlife and distinctive nomadic tribes, Thesiger spent many years as an Honorary Game Warden leading anti-poaching patrols through some of Africa's most challenging terrain.

He vividly describes Kenya's northern tribes—Rendille warriors dancing by moonlight, Turkana in pursuit of buffalo, and compelling accounts of Samburu moran during their initiation ceremonies. This is an intimate portrait of a vanishing world, seen through the eyes of one of the twentieth century's greatest explorers.