Close up portrait of a ... Arabia

Close up portrait of a ... ArabiaClose up portrait of a curly haired boy of the Mahamid lineage of Duru Bedouin, taken in the region west of the Hamrat ad Duru. The boy is the son of Huaishil, a man who was one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions and a sheikh of the Duru. The boy stands facing towards the near left. He is smiling. He is wearing a headscarf wrapped loosely around his head and a light coloured thobe (shirt). In the distance beyond dry vegetation lies in the

In the distance beyond large ghaf trees grow on a low ridge

In the background a ridge of mountains rises to a high peak in the distance

Each man wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt over his thobe (long shirt)

at a well near Sharjah city during the party's journey from Jabal Sumeini to Sharjah

The harbour at Al Mukalla

A few small bushes cling to its left face

secondary dunes

kneels in an area of bare sand

A Batina camel stands on a sand dune in sparse dry grass

south of Liwa Oasis in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

A protective glove used to carry a falcon lies beside the blanket

In the far background houses line the far side of the creek