Sunday, 29 July 2018

I thought it sounded a deadly, deadly dull country to live in

In his seventies he said: 'I imagined that England was like India. I was very disappointed when my father told me that, in England, there were none of the animals or birds I knew. No hyenas, no oryx, no kites. I thought it sounded a deadly, deadly dull country to live in.'

A. Maitland, Wilfred Thesiger (2007), 51

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