WARWICK CAIRNS
In Praise of Savagery
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
Raiders of the Dressing-up Box
You Can Run But You Can’t Hide
Upon the Etiquette of Massacre
The Worst Restaurant in the World
The Water-Song and the Camel-Men
Incidents on the Slopes of Mount Kulal
Telling the Sheep from the Goats
Playing British Bulldog for a Bride
The Still Point of the Turning World
The Giving and Receiving of Gifts