2008: Arabian Sandsrepresentativein the role of the Salem bin Gbisha and the film the life story of British Travelers Wilfred Thesiger, which cross the Empty Quarter twice between 1945 and 1950
When Wilfred Thesiger visited Dikhil in May 1934, he was struck by "a most impregnable fort here" recently constructed by the French colonial authorities.
Wilfred Thesiger describes a very similar games played by the Afar which he calls gaso.
Since then, McCarron has also trekked 1000 miles through the Empty Quarter desert with adventurer Alastair Humphreys, using explorer and author Wilfred Thesiger as their inspiration.
These were the remnants of 51 battalions which had managed to escape from Gojjam ahead of Gideon Force, and were trapped in the town when Wilfred Thesiger completed a 50-mile march in 24 hours with his men and seized the ridge connecting two hills the Italians had intended to use for their retreat.
Viscount Chelmsford, future Viceroy of India was an uncle, and the actor Ernest Thesiger was a cousin.
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In the film version of Gavin Maxwell's Ring of Bright Water, Bill Travers uses a copy of Thesiger's The Marsh Arabs to covertly spy on his soon-to-be close companion, Mij the otter.
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In 1930, Thesiger returned to Africa, having received a personal invitation from Emperor Haile Selassie to attend his coronation.
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The diplomat Gilbert Thesiger, who served in Addis Ababa in 1916, was another son, and father of the author and explorer Wilfred Thesiger.