View of sailors hoisting sails ... Special Orders

View of sailors hoisting sails ... Special OrdersView of sailors hoisting sails on a dhow (sailboat) travelling through the Persian Gulf from Dubai to Bahrain Island. A number of sailors line up on deck between the dhow's two masts. Above them one man stands on a wooden yard, pulling heavily on a rope. Behind him a large sail is being raised. In the background the sky is clear and the ocean is calm. This image was taken during Wilfred Thesiger's May 18 28, 1948 journey by dhow from Dubai to Bahrain

Portrait of a man in the lower Wadi Damad region

View of dhows (sailboats) beached in Manama on Bahrain Island

View of landscape in the Wadi Hadhramawt between Seiyun and Tarim

along which several people pass

is moored futher back on the left

View of a retainer in Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party standing with camels in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain

in Liwa oasis

A wedding procession making its way through the backstreets of Beijing

Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger (right) and three other members of a hunting party

In the central distance a square stone watchtower

View of a large herd of goats and donkeys watering at a pool

with snowcapped mountains in the background and