Sir Wilfred Thesiger

Wilfred Thesiger was born in 1910 at the British Legation in Addis Ababa, and spent his early years in Abyssinia. He was educated at Eton and Oxford. In the Second World War, serving under Orde Wingate in Abyssinia, he was awarded a DSO. He later served with the SOE in Syria and the SAS in the Western Desert. Thesiger’s journeys won him the Founder’s Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, the Lawrence of Arabia Medal of the Royal Central Asian Society and the Burton Memorial Medal of the Royal Asiatic Society. His writing won him the Heinemann Award, Fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature, and an Honorary DLitt from the University of Bath. In 1968, Thesiger was made CBE. He is an Honorary Fellow of both the British Academy and Magdalen College, Oxford, and was honoured with a KBE in 1995. For more than 20 years until 1994, he lived mostly with the pastoral Samburu at Maralal in northern Kenya. He died in Surrey, England, in August 2003 and this engrossing new publication is a fitting tribute to the excellence of his work.

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  1. Arabian Sands
    Arabian Sands
    AED 155.00
  2. Wilfred Thesiger in Africa
  3. Crossing the Sands
  4. Arabian Sands (Arabic Edition)
  5. My Kenya Days
    My Kenya Days
    AED 100.00
  6. The Thesiger Collection
  7. The Thesiger Collection

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