WINGATE, Orde Charles.

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"In Search of Zerzura." Offprint, one of the author's retained copies, kept as part of his personal papers until their dispersal in the late 1990s.In 1933, towards the end of his attachment to the Sudan Defence Force, Wingate set out with Royal Geographical Society support in search of the Lost Army of Cambyses and the oasis of Zerzura. The expedition, while unsuccessful, marked an important point in his life, for it "proved to him that he had the inner strength to live and survive in an unforgiving environment" (Royle) and and prepared him for his time in Palestine and with the Chindits in Burma. His article is written with "the voice of the true desert traveller, of the man who swears never again to split his head in long glaring days on the march only to discover that a month of ease fills him with impatience to be back in the sands to inflict on himself the same torments once more" (Royle).Provenance: by descent to Lieutenant-Colonel Orde Jonathan Wingate (1944-2000), Wingate's son; sold as part of the dispersal of Wingate's papers, Sotheby's, 11 June 1996, Lot 373; purchased by Steve Forbes, chairman of Forbes Magazine and presidential candidate in the 1996 and 2000 US elections.

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