View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:none

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:noneView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a sabkha in Al Humrah sands during the party's journey to Umm az Zumul. In the near left one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions stands in an area of rolling downs. Behind him three camels graze in the sand, and in the distance a vast white sabkha (salt flat) lies beyond the downs on the right. In the far distance a high dune massif borders the flat on the far side. Due to the nature of these images,

In the far distance on the right a mountain rises along the horizon

Portrait of two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a well south-west of the Al Ain

Wilfred Thesiger sits on a cloth in the left foreground

In the foreground a vast expanse of bare sand leads to a cluster of stone and adobe buildings

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View of potters at an open air market in the city of Sabya

The camel is saddled with a dark sheepskin and carries bags and a rifle on its back

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party travelling in Al Khatam sands south of Al Ain

In the foreground four men stand in front of a dhow (boat) beached in the sand

Further behind them two saluki hunting dogs rest in the sand beside a clump of vegetation

In the foreground a man and a group of children walk across a gravel plain towards the foreground where a palm grows on a large sand flat

In the central distance a Manasir tent clad in striped woven blankets has been erected alongside a stand of trees and bushes in a wide expanse of sand dotted with vegetation