It was one of the great exploits of a golden age of exploration: Bertram Thomas, a British diplomat, spent 42 days travelling overland along the coast of Oman. As recorded in his 1928 diary ...

When Bertram Thomas woke on Oman’s coast 85 years ago, he did so with failure looming over him. A steamship sat in harbour waiting to take him back to the city of Muscat where castigation and a ...

ARABIA FELIX — Bertram Thomas — Scribner ($5). Last large geographical blind spot in world cartographers’ eyes was the great desert Rub’ al Khali, “empty quarter” of Arabia. After ...

The first person to successfully swim the Strait of Juan de Fuca was Bert Thomas. Born July 17, 1925, Thomas started swimming competitively at an early age. During World War II, Thomas joined the U.S.