Close up profile portrait of ... Arabia

Close up profile portrait of ... ArabiaClose up profile portrait of a camel, owned by Wilfred Thesiger in 1950, in the plains below Hamrat ad Duru, during the party's journey from Masruq well to Al Hubi village. The camel faces towards the left (only its head and neck are visible). It is wearing the traditional form of guiding harness, which consists of a chain halter, a neck rope, and a head rope. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage

View of four camels wearing crossed wooden supports to take the load of packs

while further along a man sits on the shoreline

at the market in Bati

A high dune rippled by small waves of secondary dunes sits in the foreground

The market stalls are set into a building and have large wooden doors

At the bottom of the slope five of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions lead their camels in a line towards one of four date palm groves in the far distance

View of a boy standing in a zaima (coracle made of reeds)

Standing three-quarter length portrait of a herds boy of the Rashid Bedouin with a female camel in the sands near Al Ain

fill the town

while purchasers stand looking at the merchandise

Six Wahiba Bedouin tribesmen of mixed ages sit on the ground in a line

possibly a j