Wilfred Patrick Thesiger — adventure-travel anachronism, foremost living remnant of this century’s golden age of exploration, author of the classic Arabian Sands, slayer of 70 lions and 2,000 boars — ...

The great traveller and writer, Wilfred Thesiger, was probably the first outsider who came closest to understanding the ways of the Bedu, the nomadic people of the Arabian peninsula. Thesiger lived ...

One highly recommended book to read to wile away the hours on the beach or in a cafe is 'Arabian Sands'. By British traveller Wilfred Thesiger, who died in 2003, it is a tale of his travels through ...

Sir Wilfred Thesiger, a celebrated British explorer who twice crossed a vast Saudi Arabian desert by camel, lived among the marsh dwellers of southern Iraq and risked his life to discover why Ethiopia ...

OF ALL Saddam Hussein's depredations, the ruin of the marsh culture that once thrived around the Shatt al-Arab waterway, the Tigris and the Euphrates, is perhaps the most poignant. Today, the best way ...

Sir Wilfred Thesiger, who died on Sunday aged 93, was the quintessential English explorer, and the last and greatest of that small band of travellers who sought out the secrets of the desert in the ...