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Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger KBE, DSO, FRAS, FRSL, FRGS (3 June 1910 – 24 August 2003), also called Mubarak bin London (Arabic for "the blessed one of London") was an English explorer and travel writer.

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The harder the life, the finer the person.

Harder, Life, Person, Persons

Hunger, thirst, heat and cold: I had tasted them in full

Cold, Heat, Hunger, Thirst

For me, exploration was a personal venture. I did not go to the Arabian desert to collect plants nor to make a map; such things were incidental. At heart I knew that to write or even to talk of my travels was to tarnish the achievement. I went there to find peace in the hardship of desert travel and the company of desert peoples. I set myself a goal on these journeys, and, although the goal itself was unimportant, its attainment had to be worth every effort and sacrifice. . . No, it is not the goal but the way there that matters, and the harder the way the more worth while the journey.

Effort, Heart, Plants, Sacrifice, Way, Writing

In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an encumbrance. I had found too, a comradeship inherent in the circumstances, and the belief that tranquility was to be found there.

Civilization, Desert, Encumbrance, Necessity, Unattainable, Unhampered

I knew instinctively that it was the very hardness of life in the desert which drew me back there - it was the same pull which takes men back to the polar ice, to high mountains, and to the sea.

Ice, Instinctively, Life, Men, Same, Sea

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