Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger (3 June 1910 – 24 August 2003), also known as Mubarak bin Landan (Arabic: مُبَارَك بِن لَنْدَن, the blessed one of London)...
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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...
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removed of the explorer and author Wilfred Thesiger (1910–2003), and the nephew of the 2nd Lord Chelmsford. Thesiger attended Marlborough College and the...
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General Frederic Augustus Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, GCB, GCVO (31 May 1827 – 9 April 1905) was a British Army officer who rose to prominence during...
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Arabian Sands is a 1959 book by explorer and travel writer Wilfred Thesiger. The book focuses on the author's travels in the Arabian Peninsula between...
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for being a key member of the travelling party commissioned by Sir Wilfred Thesiger during his two crossings of the Rub' al Khali undertaken between 1946...
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very treacherous when broken through. There is little vegetation. Sir Wilfred Thesiger was the first European to see the area in the late 1940s after his...
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Viscount Chelmsford (redirect from Frederic Thesiger, 4th Viscount Chelmsford)
between 1927 and 1929 while his third son Ernest Thesiger was an actor. The Hon. Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger (1871–1920), third son of the second Baron, was...
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Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GBE, PC (12 August 1868 – 1 April 1933), styled the Lord Chelmsford until 1921...
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Wales Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger (1871–1920), British officer and diplomat Wilfred Thesiger (1910–2003), British explorer and travel writer Thesiger Bay,...
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Books. pp. 43–45. ISBN 9780151012350. Wilfred Thesiger, The Marsh Arabs, Penguin, 1967, p.92 Thesiger, p.174 Thesiger, p.92 USAID Iraq Marshlands Restoration...
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Anglo-Irish stock. The explorer Wilfred Thesiger was a cousin; his father, Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger, son of Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, married...
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1956, Maxwell toured the reed marshes of southern Iraq with explorer Wilfred Thesiger, Maxwell's wife's first cousin once removed. Maxwell's account of their...
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related to Wilfred, with the same roots (Will and Frieden in German). Wilfred the Hairy (died 897), a count in what is now Spain Wilfred Baddeley (1872–1929)...
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Thomas and St John Philby in the early 1930s. Between 1946 and 1950, Wilfred Thesiger crossed the area several times and mapped large parts of the Empty...
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scorpion of this genus was described, from specimens collected by Wilfred Thesiger in Wadi Andhur, Oman. Finnegan was the first female scientist to describe...
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Thomas Fielden Taylor, New Zealand Anglican priest and city missioner Wilfred Thesiger (Tite Street) Gordon Thorne (first-class cricketer and British Army...
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Thesiger's Journeys in Arabia - Second Empty Quarter Crossing 1947-8". web.prm.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-01-15. "Agosto Foundation :: Wilfred Thesiger...
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towards modernization and Westernization. Eqab bin Mohaya House of Saud Wilfred Thesiger Also written as Akhwan and Akhwan min ta'a Allah (Najdi Arabic: اخوان...
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garden originally endowed by the 13th-century Egyptian sultan Baibars. Wilfred Thesiger, in his book The Marsh Arabs, notes that cats were allowed free entry...
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Wilfrid Thesiger, Penguin 1967, pp84-85 Maitland, Alexander. Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer, pg 310, HarperPress, 2006 Thesiger, Wilfred. The...
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at the Wayback Machine retrieved 19 January 2011 'Arabian Sands' by Wilfred Thesiger, 1991 Schulze, Reinhard, A Modern History of the Islamic World (New...
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documentary filmed expedition in the footsteps of 1940s British Explorer Wilfred Thesiger. In 2014 Hayes summited the second highest mountain in the world, K2...
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March 1929. Retrieved 29 October 2013. Dickson Wilfred Thesiger. (1991). 'Arabian Sands' by Wilfred Thesiger, pp. 248-249 King Abdul Aziz Information Resource...
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Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights by Anonymous Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger The Aran Islands by J. M. Synge The Archbishop's Ceiling by Arthur...
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explorer Wilfred Thesiger as a "hilarious segment". It quotes "We started to blow up our air-beds. 'God, you must be a couple of pansies,' said Thesiger." The...
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nails. The wood used is typically acacia or mulberry. British explorer Wilfred Thesiger described them thus: She was a beautiful craft that could carry as...
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hired the better qualified Native American Sacagawea to help them. Wilfred Thesiger hired guides in the deserts that he ventured into, such as Kuri on...
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Amazon River Tristão Vaz Teixeira Portuguese 15th Madeira Islands Wilfred Thesiger English 20th Africa, Middle East David Thompson Welsh–English 18th/19th...
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needed] (after whom the Murchison crater on the Moon is named) and Sir Wilfred Thesiger. Novelist Anthony Powell was a member, and the club is featured in...
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