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Wilfred Thesiger is the last of the great British eccentric explorers, renowned for his travels through some of the most inaccessible places on earth. As a child in Abyssinia he watched the glorious armies of Ras Tafari returning from hand-to-hand battle, their prisoners in chains, at the age of 23 he made his first expedition into the country of the Danakil, a murderous race among whom a man's status in the tribe depended on the number of men...

In 1930 Wilfred Thesiger attended the coronation of HIM Haile Selassie at the Emperor's personal invitation. Afterwards, he spent a month hunting alone in the hostile Danakil desert of Abyssinia (now Ethiopia), which led three years later to his successful exploration of the Awash River. Aged only twenty-three, Thesiger thus became the first European to travel through the fabled Sultanate of Aussa, an expedition which he regards as the most da...

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For a period of seven years, Wilfred Thesiger canoed through the marshes at the confluence of Iraq's Tigris and Euphrates rivers, living among the native Madan tribes and their islands made of reeds.

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Wilfred Thesiger, this century's greatest living explorer, recalls his travels among the mountain ranges of Asia.

Als einer der ersten Europäer hat Wilfred Thesiger die Wüste Rub al-Khali durchquert: das »Leere Viertel« auf der arabischen Halbinsel, 780.000 Quadratkilometer Sand. Zwischen 1947 und 1950 durchstreifte er sie, ständig bedroht von Wassermangel und Stammesfehden. Er lebte mit den Beduinen und ahnte den Untergang ihrer traditionellen Kultur, der Nomadenkarawanen und Falkenjagd. Sein fesselnder Bericht berührt als Zeugnis dieser Welt - des alten...

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Five thousand years of history were here and the pattern was still unchanged." During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq, Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries. Travelling from village to village by canoe, he won acceptance by dispensing medicines and treating the sick. In this account of his time there, he pays tribute to the hospitality, loyalty, courage...

Following worthily in the tradition of Burton, Lawrence, Philby and Thomas, [Arabian Sands] is, very likely, the book about Arabia to end all books about Arabia." -The Daily Telegraph Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life-"the machines, the calling cards, the meticulous...

LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays

Following on from his autobiography, >The Life Of My Choice, My Kenya Days< is an evocative account of Thesiger's time in Kenya since his first visit in 1960. Superbly illustrated with 48pp of the author's own duotone photographs.

As a child in Abyssinia he watched the glorious armies of Ras Tafari returning from hand-to-hand battle, their prisoners in chains, at the age of 23 he made his first expedition into the country of the Danakil, a murderous race among whom a man's status in the tribe depended on the number of men he had killed and castrated. His books, "Arabian Sands" and "The Marsh Arabs", tell of his two sojourns in the Empty Quarter and the Marshes of Southe...

This is a collection of Wilfred Thesiger's greatest journeys - in the Empty Quarter of Arabia, the marshes of Iraq, the mountains of the Hindu Kush and Kurdistan, and the Yemen - illustrated with Thesiger's own photographs.