View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:white

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:whiteView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking between oases in Liwa oasis. In the central foreground a few clumps of qassis (sedge) grow on the side of a long ridged dune. In the central foreground one of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions rides his camel up the face of the dune accompanied by Warad, the party's saluki dog. Further beyond three more members of the party ride in a line along the side of the dune, which rises high

Salim bin Kabina stands in a large expanse of flat sand to the right of the camel on which Wilfred Thesiger made his second journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

Portrait of three members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party sitting with water skins at Ma' Shadid well in Dhofar

A crowd of people using ropes and pulleys haul water from the well

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Khatam sands

Half length portrait of Muhammad bin Al Jabari

In the background a line of low hills rises in the far left distance

wearing a shirt and a wraparound skirt

both of which receive a reasonable attendance although the aboriginal modes of worship and dancing are maintained

during the party's journey from Al Ain to Ramlat Unayq

View of sand dunes south-west of Al Ain

The fort Gyantse dzong at Gyantse

north of the Wadi Hadhramawt