Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid ... India

Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid ... IndiaPortrait of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions at a well in a date palm grove at Liwa oasis. Five men stand around a well in front of a few date palms. A man in a light coloured thobe (long shirt) and dark ghutra (headscarf) stands at the far left of five men. Next to him 'Amair bin 'Omar, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, stands holding out a leather bag full of water. In the centre right a man in a dark ghutra and

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking across a plain between mountain ridges in the Al Ghamid tribal region

View of four Arab men

Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions walk in a line

with whom Wilfred Thesiger stayed for a few days during his first crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

Further beyond a man stands in the far right distance

and holding a spear and ambatch parrying shield in his left hand

The offering of the Nechung Oracle can be seen on the right

View of a round watch-tower constructed of mud and projecting tiles

recently appointed as Consul-General at Addis Ababa

View a river flowing through a valley

View of a row of houses overlooking a large square in the city of Abha

Trees and shrubs grow on sand dune in the distance