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View of three members of ... Type:unstretched canvasView of three members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a Bani Yas settlement near Radum in Liwa oasis. In the foreground Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions pause with their camels on a sand flat dotted with clumps of qassis (sedge) and salt bushes. On the far left two men adjust the load on a couched camel, while three men wait on their camels nearby. High above the flat a number of 'arish huts made of palm fronds sit on sloped

In the distance rocky cliffs rise high above

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party camping on the northern slopes of Jabal Qara

View of men gathered around several large bundles of giant reeds

Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger sitting in the Wadi al 'Ayn

This image was taken during Wilfred Thesiger's week and a half long sailing trip around the Abu Dhabi Islands with Sheikh Hazaa bin Sultan Al Nahyan

People walk along a path lined with rows of booths on either side

Portrait of a man from one of the Qara tribes standing in front of his hut in the Jabal Qara mountains

at Sarif well

In the distance beyond a low dune rises above the flat sand

a tribesman of the Mudairiba lineage of Rashid Bedouin and one of Wilfred Thesiger's guides

Behind him the crest of a dune runs from the near foreground into the right background

while a few goats graze nearby