View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Special Orders

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Special OrdersView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting at the well of Ma' Shadid in the Wadi Ghudun. On the left a few of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin guides are setting up camp in a patch of sand in the midst of a vast dry wadi. On the right a camel grazes on a near tree. In the distance beyond two of the party's camels stand where the wadi bed transitions from a covering of sand to small rocks. In the far distance low rock escarpments rise along the

He is wearing a wraparound skirt and a ghutra (headscarf) and looks into the far distance

wrapped in a striped blanket

The dune rises to a high crest on the right

In the background a vast flat plain dotted with bushes stretches out into the far distance

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party resting under trees at Jabal Buwaydah

A number of Bedouin men gather around Ma' Shadid well

Portrait of a man (named Hamaid al Mahri)

Two huge tankas hanging from the Potala palace

In the far distance a member of the party stands at the top of a high dune

the 'Sky Dancing Rope Game' or Chakhen Tagshur

View of a house at Wama

Sheikh Mubarak bin Mohammed Al Nahyan stands second from the right