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In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an encumbrance. I had found too, a comradeship inherent in the circumstances, and the belief that tranquility was to be found there.

Wilfred Thesiger

I knew instinctively that it was the very hardness of life in the desert which drew me back there - it was the same pull which takes men back to the polar ice, to high mountains, and to the sea.

Wilfred Thesiger

Wilfred Thesiger

Wilfred Thesiger

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Born: June 3, 1910

Died: August 24, 2003 (aged 93)

Bio: Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger also called Mubarak bin London was an English explorer and travel writer.

Known for:

Arabian Sands (1959)
The Marsh Arabs (1964)
The life of my choice (1987)
The Danakil diary (1996)
My Kenya days (1994)

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