The Greatest Books: Written by Wilfred Thesiger

Wilfred Thesiger

Nationality: British
Description: Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger (3 June 1910 – 24 August 2003), also called Mubarak bin London (Arabic: مُبَارَك بِن لَنْدَن‎, "the blessed one of London") was a British military officer, explorer, and writer.
Thesiger's travel books include Arabian Sands (1959), on his foot and camel crossing of the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula, and The Marsh Arabs (1964), on his time living in the marshes of Iraq with the Marsh Arabs. He donated his collection of 38,000 travel photographs to the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.
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Gender: Male