A member of Wilfred Thesiger's ... Frame:black

A member of Wilfred Thesiger's ... Frame:blackA member of Wilfred Thesiger's party in the region between Ghayl bin Yumayn and Wadi 'Arf. 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.

Behind the camel bushes grow in the sand

View of a group of Arab men racing camels near Al Muwaiji Fort in Al Ain

Behind the new palms a more established grove of date palms grows on the far edge of the salt flat (sabkha)

Thesiger wrote that he was 'a tall man in obviously hard condition

leading their camels down a softly sloping dune

who are to be circumcised

Behind them a few sheep wait around the well

View of a few people walking through a public square in the city of Tarim

heading towards a wispy bush in the left distance

This photograph was taken during Wilfred Thesiger's journey from Marat village to Burayman

Below him on the right two large bushes grow in the the depression amongst scattered tufts of vegetation

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party with a couched camel in the Wadi al 'Ayn