View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Afghanistan

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... AfghanistanView of Wilfred Thesiger's party at a well in the plains below Hamrat ad Duru, during the party's journey from Masruq well to Al Hubi village. Five members of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling party and two camels stand beside a well. Huaishil, a sheikh of the Mahamid lineage of Duru Bedouin, stands at the centre right holding a bowl. He wears a light coloured thobe (shirt), topped with a waistcoat, and an embroidered headscarf. One member of the

which rises to a point in the far right distance

Portrait of a priest

low table with jade tea cup on left

On the left a stand of trees grows in one of the fields

large metal nose ornament

half in shadow

In the foreground large tufts of qassis (sedge) grow on the slope of a large sand dune

A depression between distant dunes contains four large bushes growing together

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party crossing the Uruq al Shaiba

with Bakhtiari nomads and their livestock in the foreground

In the foreground footsteps and camel tracks criss-cross the wind-rippled sand around the party's campsite

In the foreground a line of boys