View of a member of ... George Dixon Aked

View of a member of ... George Dixon AkedView of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party standing beneath a high sand dune during the party's journey from Khawr bin 'Atarit well in the Ghanim Sands to the Ramlat al Ghafah. 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.

Further beyond the Ru'us Al Jibal mountains rise high above the horzion on the far side of a creek

In the foreground a large tower

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands)

A few tufts of vegetation grow on the dune's slope behind him

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party trekking across dunes in Al Khatam or Al Humrah sands south of Al Ain

Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger (centre) and four sheikhs

On the far right a fourth man stands facing towards the left

At the centre one man is drinking from a metal bowl

another saddled camel is couched by some bushes

He has a curved dagger in his belt

In the distance beyond large groups of Bedouin camp in the sands around the well

On the left the peregrine stands with its wings spread wide and its talons clasped on the head or neck of the bustard