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Alexander Maitland was a close friend of Wilfred Thesiger for forty years. He edited Thesiger’s anthology, My Life and Travels (2002) and helped produce Thesiger’s My Kenya Days, The Danakil Diary, Among the Mountains and A Vanished World. He is the author of biographies of Freya Stark and John Hanning Speke, and most recently of Wilfred Thesiger: A Life in Pictures.

2010 will mark the centenary of Wilfred Thesiger's birth.