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William Shakespear (explorer)

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government in India asked Shakespear to secure Ibn Sa'ud's support for the British-Indian Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, which had just taken
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While in Kuwait, Shakespear made seven separate expeditions into the Arabian interior, during which he became a close friend of
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Notes by the biographer Harry Victor F. Winstone and David Wingate on a Shakespeare Family Genealogical Site
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and explorer who mapped uncharted areas of Northern Arabia and made the first official British contact with
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Desert, which he mapped and studied in great detail, the first European to do so. In November 1914, the
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Captain Shakespear: Desert Exploration, Arabian Intrigue and the Rise of Ibn Sa'ud
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might have been very differently directed if Shakespear had survived, that the
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Explorer who mapped uncharted areas of Northern Arabia
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would have supported and armed Ibn Sa'ud rather than
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