Another Photo of the Ma’naghiyah mare Kokhle
Jeanne Craver sent me this photo a few days ago, in reference to the discussion on this entry.
Day: October 6, 2009
Wilfred Thesiger Photo Collection at Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum
Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003) is known as the last of the great Western explorers and travelers. He was the first European to have crossed the heart of the lifeless Empty Quarter (al-Rub’ al-Khali), the great South-East Arabian sand desert. Â Before him, Bertram Thomas and Harry St-John Bridger Philby traveled around the edges of that desert, which … Read more