Wilfred Thesiger•Charles Butt•Edward Grazda
Society and Religion 1945–2006
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Wilfred Thesiger, photographed by Salim bin Kabina, Wadi al-Ain, 1949
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Salim bin Ghabaisha, Jabal Qara, 1947
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Old man of the Wahiba tribe, Wadi Halfayn, 1949
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Man of the Wahiba tribe, Ramlat al-Wahiba, 1944
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Salim bin Kabina, Ramlat al-Wahiba, 1949
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Girl of the Wahiba at a well, Wadi Halfayn, 1949
Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger (1910–2003) was a British explorer and travel writer born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Thesiger is best known for two travel books, Arabian Sands, which recounts his travels in Arabia and describes the vanishing way of life of the Bedouins; and The Marsh Arabs (1964), an account of the Madan, an indigenous people of southern Iraq. Thesiger took many photographs during his travels and donated his vast collection of 23,000 negatives to the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford.