In Praise of Savagery. Warwick Cairns

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      For Susan

       Tho’ it were ten thousand mile.

       Yet they were a cheerful, happy people despite the incessant killing, and certainly not afflicted by the boredom which weighs so heavily today on our own young urban civilization.

       Wilfred Thesiger, 1934

      Contents

       Title Page

A Man Between Two Worlds

Cheques and Balances

Sultan of Aussa

Harlow New Town

The Emperor’s Gift

Don’t Tell Others

The Clinic

Preparations

The Awash Station

Aeroflot

       Raiders of the Dressing-up Box

       You Can Run But You Can’t Hide

       An Interrupted Journey

       The River-Plain of Bahdu

       A Letter

       To the North

       Kibiriti

       Upon the Etiquette of Massacre

       Preparations

       The Worst Restaurant in the World

       Addis Ababa

       Chukana is Indisposed

       The Water-Song and the Camel-Men

       Upon Human Nature, and Goats

       A Question of Responsibility

       The Great Explorer

       A Blessing

       The Hangadaala Takes a Walk

       Deep Water

       In the Midday Sun

       A Collective Decision

       Built for Miserable Weather

       The Wells at Intahe

       Four Days at Gewani

       Elsewhere

       Incidents on the Slopes of Mount Kulal

       Upon Sleep, Pleasure and Duty

       Into Hostile Territory

       Telling the Sheep from the Goats

       The Silver Baton of Command

       Playing British Bulldog for a Bride

       The Sultan’s Vizier

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