Mountain landscape at Harub village ... George Dixon Aked

Mountain landscape at Harub village ... George Dixon AkedMountain landscape at Harub village with a riverbed and trees in the foreground. 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 Museum.

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party watering their camels at 'Ayn al Hasy well in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

Rai al Raqiqa is a tribesman of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin

In the foreground two men stand beside a man standing on a oil drum in front of the sambuk

standing in front of a cannon outside Qasr Al Hosn fort in Abu Dhabi

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands

View of two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Sharqiyah Sands during the party's journey from Tawi Harian well to Batha' Badiyah

while in the far background buildings line the shores of Bahrain Island

Leather sacks

View of two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding through the desert near Umm az Zumul well

In the distance beyond the square stone Shindagha watchtower rises high above nearby 'arish huts and beached dhows (sailboats)

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in the Wadi Haluf near Haluf well

tethered to the back of the men's mounts