The English administrator Frederic John Napier Thesiger Chelmsford, 1st Viscount Chelmsford (1868-1933), was viceroy of India during a difficult period when British prestige there was at a dangerously low ebb. He initiated the course of Indian...

Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger, the legendary explorer and traveller, died, aged 93, on 24 August 2003. He has often been compared with other great explorers of the past, including Bruce in Abyssinia; Burton and Speke in East Arica; Palgrave and Doughty in Arabia....

The telltale knocking of opportunity sounds different to each of us, no doubt, but to Wilfred Thesiger it had an especially odd timbre. It was at a dinner party in Addis Ababa--not a place much known for affording opportunities--that he meta representative of...