View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Sue Johnson

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Sue JohnsonView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking in the Uruq al Awarik sands or Al Jaladah plain in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). 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 huts made of Arish (dry palm fronds

In the far background a number of trees grow on the flat below Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet)

one of Wilfred Thesiger's Hejaz guides

A talk mast projects out of the middle of the boat

A third man sits to the left of the standing boys

Further beyond

The boy's head is loosely covered with a headscarf and he holds a bone in one hand

It is wearing a chain halter

In the far distance a second

a retainer to the Emir of Najran

stands in soft sand in the foreground holding a peregrine falcon

In the distance beyond the kotia a vast empty ocean continues to the horizon below a lightly cloudy sky