Marsh arabs wilfred thesiger biography

British military officer, explorer, and writer

For his father, the British officer and diplomat, see Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger.

Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger (3 June 1910 – 24 August 2003),^[1] also known as Mubarak bin Landan (Arabic: مُبَارَك بِن لَنْدَن, the blessed one of London)^[2][3] was a British military officer, explorer, and writer.

Thesiger's travel books include Arabian Sands (1959), on his foot and camel crossing of the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula, and The Marsh Arabs (1964), on his time living with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq.

Early life

Thesiger was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.^[1] He was the son of Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger, who was British consul-general in Ethiopia from 1909 to 1919, and his wife Kathleen Mary Vigors.

Thesiger's grandfather was Frederic Augustus Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford. Another Frederic Thesiger, a future viceroy of India and the first Viscount Chelmsford, was a