View of a field, houses ... Size:medium

View of a field, houses ... Size:mediumView of a field, houses and a fort in the Al Ain Buraimi oasis. Large leafed shrubs grow on a sandy, grass covered field in the foreground. An 'arish (palm frond) house, with an attached palm fenced enclosure, sits in the far left background. In the central background an adobe house sits beside a large fort with high walls and square towers. In the far background tall trees and date palms grow in the distance beyond. This image was taken between

In the left foreground three of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions lead camels across sand dotted with tufts of qassis (sedge)

Portrait of young man (named Wadi)

In the far background dry tufts of vegetation grow in the sand

holding a headrest

View looking over a kasbah (fortress and surrounding quarter) in the High Atlas range of mountains

Half-length portrait of a man

a camel which Wilfred Thesiger rode from Al Ain to Sharjah

A number of women sit in the shade on the left

A baggage camel follows behind him on a lead

Portrait of a boy in the Wadi Baysh

He wears a cartridge belt over a light coloured thobe (shirt) and a thick ghutra (headscarf)

while further behind large numbers of goats and camels