Wilfred Thesiger with companions ArabiaGroup portrait of Wilfred Thesiger (centre) and members of his travelling party: Mabkhaut bin Arbain, Musallim bin Tafl, Muhammad al Auf and Salim bin Kabina. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.
In the distance beyond the sea stretches out empty and uninterrupted to the far horizon
alongside Thesiger stands his Nuer interpreter Malo
looking northwards from Tanta (near Magdala)
dotted with a few sparse areas of vegetation
a stretch of water that separates Abu Dhabi Island from the mainland
Sheikh Zayed with a falcon at Buraimi
In the distance a number of booms
The bustard lies in the sand with its wings crushed beneath its body
with his wife and other British Legation staff arriving at the palace residence (Gibbi) of the Emperor Menelik
lie on the shore and a number of people walk across the sand
with a saluki hunting dog in the foreground
a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin
