View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Frame:natural

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Frame:naturalView of Wilfred Thesiger's party trekking through the As Saruq sands north of Liwa oasis during their journey to Abu Dhabi. In the foreground an expanse of wind rippled sand is dotted with tracks and footprints. In the further distance one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, walks his camel through the sand. Ahead of him the rest of the party walks ahead with their camels. Surrounding

View of a man cutting a pole from qasab

Behind the men a large wind-rippled dune rises in the distance

The people stand at the top of a long

Each person holds either a rifle or a camel stick

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party resting under ghaf trees north of Al Ain oasis

stands holding out a leather bag full of water

In the left background is the minaret of the Abu Maruf Mosque

View of Bedouin men in Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party camping in the Jiddat al Harasis near Boi well

In the background a few palm trees grow in a field of grain

in the Wadi Halfayn

Members of the 1936 British Mission to Lhasa

Terraced fields lie below the tower along the hill's right slope