![]() 303 service rifle given to him by Thesiger. In his 1946 Arabian diary, Thesiger first mentions Bin Kabina as ‘Mohammed’. Thesiger and his traveling companions in the Empty Quarter: Abdullah bin Misad, Said bin Musallim and Sultan, Oman, 1946 Thesiger fully acknowledged that he owed his survival to his Bedu companions. During these journeys Thesiger made over 2,500 photographs, some of which some were published in his classic account of those journeys Arabian Sands (1959). During the two crossings of the Empty Quarter, he was accompanied by experienced Bedu companions, in particular Salim bin Kabina and Salim bin Ghabaisha. ![]() Through this work he was able to build good relations with the local Bedu. He first travelled to Saudi Arabia in 1945 with the Desert Locust Unit to investigate the problem of locust swarms in the fragile ecosystem on the desert’s edge. He made two crossings of the great desert space between 19, which he saw as not only one of the few remaining places undisturbed by Western influence, but also an environment where he could truly test himself. Wilfred Thesiger’s name is inseparably linked to the Rub ‘al Khali or Empty Quarter in Arabia. ![]() Sir Wilfred Thesiger (Mubarak Bin London) ![]()
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