Standing half length portrait of ... Africa

Standing half length portrait of ... AfricaStanding half length portrait of an Arab man, one of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's retainers, in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. An Arab man wearing a patterned ghutra (headscarf) and a light coloured thobe (long shirt) topped with a khanjar (dagger) stands looking directly forward. The man has chin length curly hair and a thick full beard. He holds camel stick in one hand. In the distance behind him small shrubs and bushes grow on a rolling

View of a people from the Humaydah tribe watering goats

In the far background a tree and scattered clumps of vegetation grow on the vast plain

Summit covered with cairns left by pilgrims over many years

Group portrait of three members of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling party

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding camels across the barren steppes of Jaddat al Harasis

Portrait of an elderly man of the Bin Maaruf lineage of Sa'ar Bedouin at Manwakh well

Baggage camels

View of members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party descending a sand dune in the desert of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

and his sons hosted Wilfred Thesiger's party at his encampment for a number of days in December 1946 during Wilfred Thesiger's first crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

where the British Mission under Sir Basil Gould was staying

The boy wears a number of amulets around his neck and has a patterned ghutra over his head

Group portrait of a three boys and a young man riding a donkey at Ad Darb well