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WILFRED Thesiger's face is worth exploring for its own topography. Lord knows what an expedition of pith-helmeted fleas would have made of it. That long head with its thicket of iron hair, mountain ...

Wilfred Thesiger, 93, the British explorer and travel writer who traversed deserts, shot tigers, discovered river sources and lived a life apart to find what he called "a freedom unattainable in ...

These days, exotic travel is done on and by television. TV travellers, who are always placing themselves between you and what you want to see, are forever flying to the world's farthest reaches. They ...

Sir Wilfred Thesiger, a celebrated British explorer who twice crossed a vast Saudi Arabian desert by camel, lived among the marsh dwellers of southern Iraq and risked his life to discover why Ethiopia ...

The late Sir Wilfred Thesiger seems to be the man of the moment... It is an ironic accolade and tribute to the man given that, when he was alive and in an age where reality TV and celebrity ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Alexander Maitland is drinking coffee in his London flat, describing how, in the early 1990s, he became Wilfred ...

SIR Wilfred Thesiger, who died on Sunday aged 93, was the quintessential English explorer, the last and greatest of that small band who sought out the secrets of the desert in the years before Arabia ...

OF ALL Saddam Hussein's depredations, the ruin of the marsh culture that once thrived around the Shatt al-Arab waterway, the Tigris and the Euphrates, is perhaps the most poignant. Today, the best way ...

Sir Wilfred Thesiger, who died on Sunday aged 93, was the quintessential English explorer, and the last and greatest of that small band of travellers who sought out the secrets of the desert in the ...