Full length portrait of one ... Frame:natural

Full length portrait of one ... Frame:naturalFull length portrait of one of Wilfred Thesiger's guides standing on a rock outcrop below Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] mountain. In the right foreground a man in an izaar (wraparound skirt), holding a ghutra (headscarf) over his head, stands on the edge of a rock. In the background a flat dotted with sparse vegetation sits below the high jagged limestone cliffs of Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit]. The limestone cliffs slope across the far distance from high

The man wears a ghutra (headscarf) and a plain thobe (shirt) topped with a cartridge belt

and the man on the right holds a camel stick

a young tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin

possibly a member of Wilfred Thesiger's party

At the centre a man sits in the sand beside a bush

Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting on a sandy plain during the party's journey from Yisub well to Wadi Darbat

In the far left distance a large mosque with a tall minaret sits along a far wadi bank

stands in soft sand in the foreground holding a peregrine falcon

loaded with bags of lucerne (Medicago sativa

standing with a tethered camel

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party in the Wadi Jarsis in the Jabal Qara mountains

Portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha and Thesiger