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Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer by Alexander Maitland is an authorised biography which was written with Thesiger's support before he died in 2003 and with unique access to the rich Thesiger archive. Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003), the last of the great gentlemen explorer-adventurers, journeyed for sixty years to some of the remotest, most dangerous places on earth from the mountains of western Asia to the marshes of Iraq. The author of "Arabian Sands and The Marsh Arabs" and "The Life of my Choice," he was a legend in his own lifetime but his character and motivations have remained an intriguing enigma.