Close up profile portrait, taken ... Type:unstretched canvas

Close up profile portrait, taken ... Type:unstretched canvasClose up profile portrait, taken in the sands near Al Ain, of a thoroughbred female batina camel Wilfred Thesiger owned in 1950. The camel faces towards the left (only its head and neck are visible). It is wearing the traditional form of guiding harness, which consists of a chain halter, a neck rope, and a head rope. 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

View of the Potala Palace with the hamlet of Sho in the foreground

In the foreground one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling companions hauls up a bag of water from a well that has been reinforced with wood

Portrait of Wahiba Bedouin at Buraymah well in the Wadi Halfayn

View of sand dunes in the region between Jaladah plain and the Bani Ma'arid sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

Behind them a few dots of vegetation grow on a high sand dune

In the foreground a man and a boy relax in shallow water on the right

The photograph has been taken from one of the roofs of the buildings at the base of the Potala or on the steps

The man wears a thobe (long shirt) and a headscarf (ghutra)

a dry river bed

on a sand dune during the party's journey from Al Ain to Liwa oasis

and centre of a vessel filled with men

A couched camel rests in the sand on the left