Seated portrait of a young ... Frame:black

Seated portrait of a young ... Frame:blackSeated portrait of a young tribesman of the Manasir Bedouin in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. A smiling young man with short hair kneels in the sand holding his hands in his lap. He wears a plain ghutra (headscarf) and a light coloured thobe (long shirt) cinched with a belt. Behind him small tufts of vegetation jut out across a vast sand flat from the near foreground into the far distance. This image was taken between December 20, 1948, and January

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party camping beneath a large ghaf [Prosopis cineraria] tree at the western end of the Wadi Mughshin

All around the dhows the sea is flat and the sky clear of clouds

In the foreground on the left a man walks past a tent made of woven mats

View of desert landscape in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands

Portrait of a Bin Maaruf nomad (of the Saar tribe)

ride their camels across a vast empty flat plain

In the foreground a camel is turning a press for sesame seeds

sitting on a chair made with ibex horns

In the distance beyond sparse tufts of vegetation dot a vast flat plain

On the left many people walk along the thoroughfare beneath the canopy

its head next to Musallim bin Al Kamam's knees

carrying a knife in his waistband and a rifle over his left shoulder