View of an abra (ferry ... Type:stretched canvas

View of an abra (ferry ... Type:stretched canvasView of an abra (ferry boat) in Dubai Creek. In the left foreground an abra is beached at the side of Dubai Creek. Nearby an oarsman sits in his cloth covered abra in shallow water. In the distance beyond a dhow (sailboat) is sailing up the creek, past the one and two storey buildings that line the shore. 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

In the distance beyond a large expanse of flat sand runs to the far horizon

Three men surround a cooking fire with a large metal pot on it

In the far distance a vast rocky plain spreads out below a far mountain

walking on flat terrain as they migrate with many hundreds of goats and sheep

with a river flowing down the Ramgul valley

View of the unfinished structure of a raba (house)

A monk holding out the Tsurphu seal which is decorated with embossed metalwork

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Dhafara sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

his orderly in the Druze Legion

] These carts are never greased

In the foreground two of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions sit on their camels on a sand dune rippled with small secondary dunes

View of three Arab men