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 ...

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 ...

Sir Wilfred Thesiger died today. He was the last of the great adventurers who perhaps became most famous between 1945 and 1949 when he explored the southern regions of the Arabian Peninsula, and twice ...

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 all-encompassing ...

It is only by peering closely that one can make out the beaky nose and English features of Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003), whose "Arabian Sands" (1959) is widely regarded as one of the greatest ...

"I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions,” the English explorer Wilfred Thesiger wrote in his 1959 travelogue, Arabian Sands. It was these words ...

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 ...