Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter, I share your interest in this area. Wilfred Thesiger photographed his books on the Arabs with Leicas. His photographs of the Marsh Arabs in particular are still the reference work on these unique people. I'm not sure which model he used, but will work on digging up some info. --Jim Laurel On Jul 11, 2005, at 2:35 PM, Peter Dzwig wrote: > dnygr wrote: > >> I was reading A. Scott Berg's book on Lindbergh the other day and >> came across mention that "The Lone Eagle" took a Leica with him on >> one of his early 1930s trips to Europe. This was some time after >> the kidnapping. Does anyone know which Leica he took with and what >> came of it? Is it on display somewhere? >> Doug Nygren > > No, but I am generally intetested in explorer's Leicas. For example > both Ella maillart and Peter Fleming (Ian's younger brother) took > Leica's (IIs ir IIIs) all over Asia with them, Freya Stark used III > 230857 - which I saw last year - for a long time. Anyone know any > others? > > Peter Dzwig > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information