Three-quarter length portrait of one ... George Dixon AkedThree quarter length portrait of one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions standing in sands north of Al Ain during the party's journey from Al Ain to Ramlat Unayq. A bearded Arab man, one of Wilfred Thesiger's guides and a retainer to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, leans on a camel stick in the central foreground. He wears a cartridge belt over his thobe (long shirt), and has a ghutra (headscarf) tied around his head. Behind him is a vast
In the distance buildings at Suda can be seen
The man at the front leads the camels on foot
Portrait of Bin Kabina holding a rifle
stands at the left with three camels in a depression below a high dune
In the distance beyond dunes with sharp crests stretch out to the far horizon
In the distance low rolling dunes continue into the horizon below a cloudless sky
Profile portrait of a man of the Sa'ar Bedouin sitting in front of a cave in the Raydat as Say'ar
Right of the men a single storey building with grated windows and a domed ceiling
Seated portrait of Wilfred Thesiger taken during his party's journey from the As Saruq sands to Abu Dhabi near the end of his second journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)
This man is wearing a cartridge belt and leaning on a wooden post topped with a rope and pulley
about sixty miles west of Isleta
in which one passenger is standing
