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Wilfred Thesiger

1910 - 2003

Major Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger, CBE, DSO, FRAS, FRGS, also called Mubarak bin London (Arabic for "the blessed one from London")[1]2 was a British explorer and travel writer.

Thesiger is best known for his travel books Arabian Sands (1959), on his foot and camel crossing of the Empty Quarter of Arabia, and The Marsh Arabs (1964), on his time living in the marshes of Iraq with the Marsh Arabs. He donated his collection of 23,000 travel photographs to the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.

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  • Cover of: Arabian Sands (Penguin Classics)

    First published in 1959 22 editions in 2 languages — 3 previewable Cover of edition arabiansands00thes Cover of edition arabiansands0000thes
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  • Cover of: The Marsh Arabs (Penguin Classics)

    First published in 1964 10 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition marsharabs00thes
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  • Cover of: The life of my choice

    First published in 1984 6 editions in 1 language — 3 previewable Cover of edition lifeofmychoice0000thes Cover of edition lifeofmychoice0000thes_j4i2
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  • Cover of: My life and travels: an anthology

    First published in 2002 5 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition mylifetravelsant0000thes_x8x8
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  • Cover of: Among the Mountains: Travels Through Asia

    First published in 1998 4 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The Danakil diary: journeys through Abyssinia, 1930-34

    First published in 1996 4 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Desert, marsh, and mountain: the world of a nomad

    First published in 1979 3 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition desertmarshmount0000thes
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  • Cover of: A Vanished World

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  • Cover of: Visions of a nomad

    First published in 1987 3 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Wild: stories of survival from the world's most dangerous places

    First published in 1999 3 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Among the Mountains Travels In Asia

    First published in 1998 2 editions
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  • Cover of: La vie que j'ai choisie

    First published in 1990 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The Marsh Arabs (Travel Library)

    First published in 1983 2 editions — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: My Kenya days

    First published in 1994 2 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition mykenyadays0000thes_s6g8
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  • Cover of: Wüste, Sumpf und Berge: Reiseberichte

    First published in 2000 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Crossing the Sands

    First published in 2000 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Desert Marsh + Mnt De Lux

    First published in 1979 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Desert, Marsh and Mountain (Memoirs of Arabia)

    First published in 1993 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Die Brunnen der Wüste. Mit den Beduinen durch das unbekannte Arabien.

    First published in 1991 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Désert des déserts

    First published in 1999 1 edition — 1 previewable
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Subjects
Description and travel, Travel, Adventure and adventurers, Pictorial works, Biography, Explorers, Journeys, Social life and customs, Travel writing, Voyages and travels, Arabian peninsula, description and travel, Arabs, Deserts, Exhibitions, Fiction, general, Great britain, biography, Manners and customs, Nomads, Reisebericht, Travelers, Afar (African people), Arabian Peninsula -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works, Arabian peninsula, Aventures et aventuriers, Bedouins
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Middle East, Great Britain, Arabian Peninsula, Ethiopia, Africa, Arabia, Arabien, Asia, Danakil (Region), Euphrates River Valley, Grande-Bretagne, Iraq, Kenya, Near East, Rub al Khali, Tigris River Valley, Tigris, Río (Valle)
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Wilfred Thesiger (1910-), Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003)

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  • Mubarak bin London

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September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
December 9, 2014 Edited by Richard Hakes Edited without comment.
December 9, 2014 Edited by Richard Hakes Edited without comment.
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import