The Nuristanis had retained their individuality as a race even after conversion to Islam. Now they would be visited by an ever-increasing number of e… - Wilfred Thesiger

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The Nuristanis had retained their individuality as a race even after conversion to Islam. Now they would be visited by an ever-increasing number of expeditions seeking adventure in wild places. This would disrupt a society utterly unprepared. Each expedition by its very presence would help destroy what it had come to find.

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About Wilfred Thesiger

Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger KBE, DSO, FRAS, FRSL, FRGS (3 June 1910 – 24 August 2003), also called Mubarak bin London (Arabic for "the blessed one of London") was an English explorer and travel writer.

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Alternative Names: Sir Wilfred Thesiger • Wilfred Patrick Thesiger • Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger • Wilfred, Sir Thesiger • Mubarak Bin London • Wilfred Patrick, Sir Thesiger • Wilfred Thesinger
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No wonder that in this setting [Eton], during those impressionable years, I acquired lasting respect for tradition and veneration of the past. Here, too, from masters and boys alike, I learnt responsibility, the decencies of life, and standards of civilised behaviour.
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It is not hunger nor thirst that frightens the Bedu; they maintain that riding they can survive in cold weather for seven days without food or water. It is the possible collapse of their camels which haunts them. If this happens, death is certain.
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