View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Iran

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... IranView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party packing up in the Baynunah or Al Khatam sands during their return journey to Al Ain. On the left a man holding a camel stick stands in front of a saddled and couched camel. Sahail bin Tahi, a tribesman of the Mudairiba lineage of Rashid Bedouin, stands at the centre left. He has a thick beard and is wearing the front of his thobe (long shirt) tucked behind his khanjar (dagger). At the centre right Musallim

being crossed by a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party

some with attached palm fenced enclosures

Rice drying in a farm yard on the Island of Honshu

Portrait of an elderly man with a young child

Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger (centre) and members of his travelling party: Mabkhaut bin Arbain

Portrait of a boy (named Mabarak)

Their personal adornments are simple glass bead necklaces (tik ng’ut)

which are auspicious emblems used as roof decoration

with the supporting arches formed from bundles of giant reeds

View of mountains in the Simien range

View of a two dhows (sailboats) beached on the Corniche in the town of Abu Dhabi

standing outside decorated tents