Author and film-maker Tahir Shah chooses a military portrait.
Tahir Shah chooses Major Wilfred Thesiger, DSO by Anthony Devas
‘Sir Wilfred Thesiger’s reputation was as the indefatigable hard-as-nails traveller, a throwback to the Victorian age. He famously crossed the Arabian Empty Quarter twice, was a personal friend of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia and later lived in “retirement” with the pastoral Samburu of northern Kenya. Anthony Devas’s portrait…
