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Bibliography of Works by Sir Wilfred Thesiger

(1910–2003)C o m p i l e d b y P h i l i p N . G r o v e r

Wilfred Thesiger, ‘An Abyssinian Quest: I – Finding a Lost River: In Unknown Aussa’, The Times, 31 July 1934, pp. 15–16.

Wilfred Thesiger, ‘An Abyssinian Quest: II – Customs of the Danakil:Tribal Ceremonies’, The Times, 1 August 1934, pp. 13–14.

Wilfred Thesiger, ‘An Abyssinian Quest: A Sultan in the Jungle: III – Fauna near Aussa’, The Times, 2 August 1934, pp. 11–12.

Wilfred Thesiger, ‘An Abyssinian Quest: The Lost Reaches of theRivers: IV – Salt as Currency’, The Times, 3 August 1934, pp. 13–14.

Wilfred Thesiger, ‘The Awash River and the Aussa Sultanate’,Geographical Journal, vol. 85 (1935), pp. 1–19.

W. Thesiger and M. Meynell, ‘On a Collection of Birds from Danakil,Abyssinia’, Ibis, vol. 77 (1935), pp. 774–807.

[Wilfred Thesiger], ‘The Mind of the Moor: France in North Africa:Nationalist Needs’, The Times, 21 December 1937, pp. 15–16.

Wilfred Thesiger, ‘A Camel Journey to Tibesti’, Geographical Journal,vol. 94 (1939), pp. 433–46.

W. P. Thesiger, ‘Galloping Lion’, Sudan Notes and Records, vol. 22

(1939), pp. 155–7.Wilfred Thesiger, ‘A New Journey in Southern Arabia’, Geographical

Journal, vol. 108 (1946), pp. 129–45.

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W. Thesiger, ‘A Journey through the Tihama, the ‘Asir, and the HijazMountains’, Geographical Journal, vol. 110 (1947), pp. 188–200.

Wilfred Thesiger, ‘Empty Quarter of Arabia’, Listener, vol. 38 (1947),pp. 971–2.

W. Thesiger, ‘Across the Empty Quarter’, Geographical Journal, vol. 111

(1948), pp. 1–19.Wilfred Thesiger, ‘Studies in the Southern Hejaz and Tihama’,

Geographical Magazine, vol. 21 (1948–9), p. 8.Wilfred Thesiger, ‘Sands of the Empty Quarter’, Geographical

Magazine, vol. 21 (1948–9), p. 312.W. Thesiger, ‘A Further Journey across the Empty Quarter’,

Geographical Journal, vol. 113 (1949), pp. 21–44.Wilfred Thesiger, ‘Wolves of the Desert: The Sa‘ar Tribe at the

Watering Place’, Geographical Magazine, vol. 21 (1948–9), pp. 394–400.

Wilfred Thesiger, ‘Travel on the Trucial Coast’, Geographical Magazine,vol. 22 (1949–50), pp. 110–18.

Wilfred Thesiger, ‘The Quicksands of Oman’, Listener, vol. 42 (1949),pp. 436–8.

Wilfred Thesiger, ‘Hawking in Arabia’, Listener, vol. 42 (1949), pp. 803–4.

W. P. Thesiger, ‘The Badu of Southern Arabia’, Journal of the RoyalCentral Asian Society, vol. 37 (1950), pp. 53–61.

Wilfred Thesiger, ‘Desert Borderlands of Oman’, Geographical Journal,vol. 116 (1950), pp. 137–68.

Wilfred Thesiger, ‘Obituary: Bertram Sidney Thomas, C.M.G.,O.B.E.’, Geographical Journal, vol. 117 (1951), pp. 117–19.

Wilfred Thesiger, ‘The Ma‘dan or Marsh Dwellers of Southern Iraq’,Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, vol. 41 (1954), pp. 4–25.

Wilfred Thesiger, ‘The Marsh Arabs of Iraq’, Geographical Magazine,vol. 27 (1954–5), pp. 138–44.

Wilfred Thesiger, ‘The Marshmen of Southern Iraq’, GeographicalJournal, vol. 120 (1954), pp. 272–81.

Wilfred Thesiger, ‘In the Kurdish Mountains’, Geographical Magazine,vol. 27 (1954–5), pp. 599–606.

Wilfred Thesiger, ‘The Hazaras of Central Afghanistan’, GeographicalJournal, vol. 121 (1955), pp. 312–19.

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Wilfred Thesiger, ‘A Journey in Nuristan’, Geographical Journal, vol.123 (1957), pp. 457–64.

Wilfred Thesiger, ‘Marsh Dwellers of Southern Iraq’, NationalGeographic Magazine, vol. 113 (1958), pp. 204–39.

Wilfred Thesiger, Arabian Sands (London, 1959).Wilfred Thesiger, ‘Obituary: H. St. John B. Philby, 1885–1960’,

Geographical Journal, vol. 126 (1960), pp. 563–5.Wilfred Thesiger, The Marsh Arabs (London, 1964).Wilfred Thesiger, Foreword to Neil ffrench Blake, Handbook for

Adventure (London, 1965), pp. 9–10.Wilfred Thesiger, ‘War in Yemen – 1: Disenchantment with the

Egyptians’, The Times, 21 December 1966, p. 9.Wilfred Thesiger, ‘War in Yemen – 2: Tribesmen Acknowledge the

Imam’s Rule’, The Times, 22 December 1966, p. 11.Wilfred Thesiger, ‘Wild Dog at 5894 m (19,340 ft)’, East African

Wildlife Journal, vol. 8 (1970), pp. 202–3.Wilfred Thesiger, Desert, Marsh and Mountain: The World of a Nomad

(London, 1979).Wilfred Thesiger, Foreword to Mark Allen, Falconry in Arabia

(London, 1980), p. 9.Wilfred Thesiger, The Life of My Choice (London, 1987).Wilfred Thesiger, Visions of a Nomad (London, 1987).Wilfred Thesiger, Foreword to Hilary Hook, Home from the Hill

(London, 1987), pp. ix–x.Wilfred Thesiger, Foreword to Nigel Pavitt, Kenya: The First Explorers

(London, 1989), pp. 7–10.Wilfred Thesiger, Foreword to Stephen Taylor, The Mighty Nimrod:

A Life of Frederick Courteney Selous, African Hunter and Adventurer,1851–1917 (London, 1989), p. xi.

Wilfred Thesiger, Foreword to Clinton Bailey, Bedouin Poetry from Sinai and the Negev: Mirror of a Culture (Oxford, 1991), pp. vii–x.

Wilfred Thesiger, Foreword to Nigel Pavitt, Samburu (London, 1991),pp. 6–7.

Wilfred Thesiger, Foreword to John Keay (ed.), The Robinson Book ofExploration (London, 1993), pp. ix–x.

Wilfred Thesiger, My Kenya Days (London, 1994).

Wilfred Thesiger, The Danakil Diary: Journeys through Abyssinia, 1930–34 (London, 1996).

Wilfred Thesiger, Among the Mountains: Travels through Asia (London,1998).

Wilfred Thesiger, Crossing the Sands (Dubai, 1999).Wilfred Thesiger, Foreword to Bruce Kirkby, Sand Dance: By Camel

across Arabia’s Great Southern Desert (Toronto, 2000), p. ix.Wilfred Thesiger, Foreword to T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom:

A Triumph (London, 2000), p. xv.Wilfred Thesiger, A Vanished World (London, 2001).Wilfred Thesiger, My Life and Travels: An Anthology, ed. Alexander

Maitland (London, 2002).

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