View of sailors preparing to ... Type:stretched canvas

View of sailors preparing to ... Type:stretched canvasView of sailors preparing to hoist sails on a dhow (sailboat) in the Persian Gulf near Dubai. In the foreground a group of sailors stand in two lines beneath the dhow's main yard. Above them one sailor stands on the main yard, holding on to a second yard to which the sail is attached. This image was taken during Wilfred Thesiger's May 18 28, 1948 journey by dhow from Dubai to Bahrain Island. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any

Balconies with carved wooden screens in front of the windows

In the distance a few couched camels sit amongst scattered camping gear and camel blankets lying in the sand

while the third man

He is near the top of the mast

Portrait of Idris Daud (Wilfred Thesiger's personal retainer

Portrait of two of Wilfred Thesiger's porters

leaning on a pole

The high limestone slopes of Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] rise in the right background

with a group of people gathered outside

and slope across the far distance towards the right

with sand dunes in the distance

The tall thin towers have wooden platforms half way up the tower