Desert landscape in the Shib ... Afghanistan

Desert landscape in the Shib ... AfghanistanDesert landscape in the Shib Adaru wadi. 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.

Behind him another dune ridge rises

Three of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions rest with a camel in the shade of two tall ghaf trees [Prosopis cineraria]

In the far distance a few dhows can be seen along the horizon

The man wears a cartridge belt over his light coloured thobe (long shirt) and a dark ghutra (headscarf)

View of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions watering camels at a well in the Al Batin sands near Liwa oasis

He has a thick beard and wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt with suspenders over his thobe (shirt) and an embroidered headscarf

People in foreground and on roof

The town can be seen in the background

View of one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin guides walking across a stoney plain below Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] mountain

holds his hand above his face to block the sun

Piles of blankets and equipment lie in the sand around the camp

mostly bare of vegetation