Alexander Maitland is an RGS Fellow of long standing who has written books on Speke and Wilfred Thesiger among others.
A model biography of the explorer . . . Maitland has separated reality from legend . . . Meticulous research is illuminated by Maitland's evocations of Thesiger's affinity with a world characterised by desert romance * Sunday Telegraph on WILFRED THESIGER * A worthy testament to an exceptional life * Independent on Sunday on WILFRED THESIGER * Masterly * The Times on WILFRED THESIGER * Thesiger was compared to the greatest travellers of the Victorian age . . . Maitland captures that strange attractiveness, his undoubted love and understanding of a now-vanished world * Financial Times on WILFRED THESIGER * This thorough biography will be fascinating to Thesiger aficionados * Mail on Sunday on WILFRED THESIGER * Maitland has done justice to an extraordinary subject * Scotsman on WILFRED THESIGER * In this important biography of one of England's great legendary figures, Wilfred Thesiger's life and works are analysed in minute detail . . . it reads like an adventure story * Country Life on WILFRED THESIGER *