View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:gold

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:goldView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) during the party's journey from Jaladah plain to Bani Ma'arid sands. 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 Pitt Rivers Museum.

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's party sitting on the crest of a dune in the Ghanim Sands

Nearby one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions leads two camels through an area of hadh (Cornulaca monacantha) bushes

which is turned towards the left

Three-quarter length portrait of two Duru women and a child at a well north of Al Ain

who are to be circumcised

Seated group portrait of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party in Al Khatam sands near Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit)

Royalist Commander-in-Chief on the southern front

and holding a rifle in his right hand

for transporting the objects

while on the right a second group clusters around a lone tree

To their left the third man stands on the deck

and a few earthenware jugs lie on the dry ground