View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Size:medium

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Size:mediumView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking across a plain between mountain ridges in the Al Ghamid tribal region, during their journey from Al Makhwah to Thurayban village. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.

where a few locals are standing

and are well supplied with stone implements

Sheikh Mubarak bin Mohammed Al Nahyan and some of their retainers in Al Ain

while the other sits

Tufts of vegetation grow across the sands into the far distance

in the Western Desert

and on the far right a piece of wood sits in the sand

Group portrait of five peregrine falcons belonging to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain

Wilfred Thesiger sits at the centre

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

Thesiger's party making camp in Dhaufir

standing with some of his retainers