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Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger DSO (25 March 1871 – 31 January 1920) was a British officer and diplomat, who was British Minister in Ethiopia from 1909 to 1919 . Background and early life. Thesiger was born into a well-connected family of politicians, officers and diplomats.
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Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger KBE, DSO, FRAS, FRSL, FRGS,...
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Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger KBE, DSO (* 3. Juni 1910 in Addis Abeba; † 24. August 2003 in London) war ein britischer Forscher und Autor von Reiseberichten. Sein arabischer Name war Mubarak bin London („Der Gesegnete, Sohn von London“).
Vor 4 Tagen · Wilfred Thesiger (born June 3, 1910, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia—died August 24, 2003, London, England) was a British soldier and travel writer who was a colonial explorer in the tradition of Sir Richard Burton and T.E. Lawrence.
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26. Aug. 2003 · Sir Wilfred Thesiger, who has died aged 93, spent most of his life roaming the most distant, desolate and inaccessible parts of the world. Seemingly armed with little more than an...
Biografie. Sir Wilfred Thesiger, geboren am 3. Juni 1910 als Sohn eines englischen Diplomaten in Addis Abeba, verbrachte seine Kindheit in Afrika und studierte in Oxford und Eton. Nach dem Dienst in der britischen Kolonialverwaltung im Sudan in den Dreißiger- und Vierzigerjahren reiste er auf abenteuerlichsten Wegen durch die Welt.
Explore over 5000 images from Arabia by the renowned traveller and photographer Sir Wilfred Thesiger between 1945 and 1950, including his two famous crossings of the Empty Quarter (Rub' Al Khali), as memorably described in his classic travelogue Arabian Sands (1959).
