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.
British explorer, military officer, writer and botanical collector (1910-2003)
| Born | 1910 |
| Died | 2003 |
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British explorer, military officer, writer and botanical collector (1910-2003)
| Born | 1910 |
| Died | 2003 |
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Description and travel, Travel, Pictorial works, Adventure and adventurers, Journeys, Social life and customs, Biography, Explorers, Travel writing, Voyages and travels, Arabian peninsula, description and travel, Arabs, Deserts, Exhibitions, Fiction, general, Great britain, biography, Manners and customs, Marsh Arabs, Middle east, description and travel, Nomads, Reisebericht, Travelers, Afar (African people), Arabian Peninsula -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works, Arabian peninsulaPlaces
Middle East, Arabian Peninsula, Great Britain, Ethiopia, Euphrates River Valley, Iraq, Tigris River Valley, Africa, Arabia, Arabien, Asia, Danakil (Region), Grande-Bretagne, Kenya, Near East, Rub al Khali, Tigris, Río (Valle)ID Numbers
- OLID: OL435784A
- GoodReads: 169954
- ISNI: 000000010935660X
- Library of Congress Names: n80043320
- SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): CFIV029032
- VIAF: 111413369
- Wikidata: Q540031
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q540031
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- Mubarak bin London
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