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My life and travels
This comprehensive anthology provides a definitive overview of the life and legacy of Sir Wilfred Thesiger (1910–2003), arguably the greatest explorer of the 20th century. Edited by Alexander Maitland, the volume curates essential excerpts from Thesiger’s classic works—including Arabian Sands and The Marsh Arabs—alongside previously unpublished diary entries, letters, and personal reflections, offering a chronological narrative of a life defined by a quest for \"barbaric splendor\" and a rejection of the modern world.
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Thesiger's return
\"Thesiger's Return\" is a poignant historical and biographical account of Sir Wilfred Thesiger’s final visits to the United Arab Emirates and Oman in the 1990s. Authored by Peter Clark, a former director of the British Council, the book documents the homecoming of the legendary explorer—known to the Bedu as Mubarak bin London—to the lands he famously crossed by camel in the 1940s. The work serves as a powerful juxtaposition between the \"Empty Quarter\" of the past and the modern, oil-wealthy states of the present, capturing Thesiger's reflections on the rapid disappearance of the traditional nomadic life he once championed.
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Sand dance : by camel across Arabia's great southern desert
\"Sand Dance\" is a modern classic of travel literature that chronicles a 1,200-mile, eighty-day crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) by camel. In 1999, Bruce Kirkby and two companions set out to recreate the historic 1946 journey of the legendary explorer Sir Wilfred Thesiger (who provides the foreword). The narrative serves as a bridge between the \"Golden Age\" of exploration and the contemporary era, exploring whether it is still possible to find a traditional way of life in a region transformed by oil wealth and modernization.
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