View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Alfred Maudslay

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Alfred MaudslayView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through Al Dhafra sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Dhibi well to Al Batin sands. Two of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, tribesmen of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, ride camels across the crest of low continuous dune. Each man holds a camel stick in his hand. Behind each man's mount baggage camels follow on leads. The crest of the dune

with a river in the foreground

View of a steep mountain near the Zanskar river

Seated group portrait of four of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions taken during the party's journey from Ayun to Mudayy

In the foreground a group of large and small dhows are beached together in shallow water in Dubai Creek

carrying a cargo of reed mats

View of the Shindagha district from the Bur Dubai side of Dubai Creek

The town can be seen in the background

A peregrine falcon perches on a carved wooden wakir (block) staked in the sand on the crest of a sand dune

a type of dhow) raising the mainsail by pulling on ropes

wearing the goatskin and ostrich feather headdress associated with the circumcision ritual

In the foreground a line of boys

He wears a patterned ghutra (headscarf) tied around his head and draped down over the back of his neck and a plain light thobe (long shirt)