Seated portrait of Wilfred Thesiger ... Africa

Seated portrait of Wilfred Thesiger ... AfricaSeated portrait of Wilfred Thesiger wearing Arab dress in Dubai. Wilfred Thesiger sits in a patio chair on the rooftop terrace of a house in Dubai, facing towards the far right. He wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt and suspenders over his light coloured thobe (shirt) and a ghutra (headscarf) topped with an 'agal (head rope). Behind is a balcony fence made of carved wood. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of

He holds a rifle over his shoulder and leans on his camel stick

Hamad bin Saadna and his camel stand in front of a small bush on the side of a sand dune

High above the men the moon rises in the sky

The Potala Palace seen from the steps leading up from Sho village

Along the side of the gate and at the bottom of the wall the coral from which the wall is built is exposed

He also has a thick beard and keels holding a rifle and a camel stick in each hand

and Mexican against whom he has run

Portrait of a man of the Rashid Bedouin (left)

In the background large stone buildings sit along the top of the valley wall

Portrait of a Hazara boy

described by Wilfred Thesiger as 'one of [his] favourite compositions'

He is holding a rifled