Standing full length portrait of ... Size:large

Standing full length portrait of ... Size:largeStanding full length portrait of Wilfred Thesiger and Musallim bin Al Kamam on a rooftop terrace in Dubai. Wilfred Thesiger (left) and Musallim bin Al Kamam (right), a sheikh of the Musaifar lineage of Rashid Bedouin, stand on a rooftop terrace in Dubai. They are leaning against the balcony railing, which is made of carved wood and plaster. Each man wears a cartridge belt and suspenders over his light coloured thobe (shirt) and a ghutra (headscarf).

A lake at Ounianga Kebir with cliffs and palm trees on the shore

Behind the huts is a large two storey building

On the left a thoroughbred Omani camel is couched in the sand

Portrait of an Omani man

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party riding camels across a sand flat in the Ramlat as Sahmah

He is facing towards the right

a thobe (long shirt) and a wraparound skirt sits astride a tall camel holding a peregrine falcon on a mangalah (cuff) on his arm

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party camping beneath a ghaf [Prosopis cineraria] tree in the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands)

In the middle distance Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions trek in a line with their camels along the slope of a large dune

which is framed by two storey buildings and a line of single storey wooden shacks

in Al Muwaiji outside Al Muwaiji Fort in Al Ain

sitting on rocks at Yisub well