View of rocky valley on ... Type:stretched canvas

View of rocky valley on ... Type:stretched canvasView of rocky valley on Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] mountain. In the foreground a lone bush grows in rocky soil on a valley slope. A few clusters of vegetation grow in the valley floor among light coloured rocks. In the background the far slope of the valley rises into high limestone peaks in the distance. Wilfred Thesiger spent a week on Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] hunting Arabian Tahr [Hemitragus jayakari] with Arab and Bedouin guides in April 1948.

In the bowl on the left is some fruit

Nearby a man watches her walk past

He is wearing a headscarf

is the young boy kneeling on the left

A saddled thoroughbred Omani camel belonging to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan stands facing forward in the near foreground

with several cattle in the foreground

The tents are open on one side and sit in a vast flat plain

Exterior view of the mudhif (guest house) belonging to Abdullah of the Al Essa tribe

Image of Palden Lhamo (or Penden Lhamo) the chief protectress of Buddhism and the Dalai Lamas

In the distance Qasr Ibrahim fort and the city walls of Al Hofuf sit alongside a stand of date palms

In the distance men in Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party ride across rolling dunes

Portrait of the son of Emir Abdullah bin Faris standing with two boys in the village of Manjamah in Wadi Hali