View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Portraits of notable people

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Portraits of notable peopleView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through sand dunes in the vicinity of the Ramlat Unayq, near the Dhahir mountains north of Al Ain. The party is travelling from Al Ain to Jabal Sumeini. In the foreground a wide expanse of bare, wind rippled sand leads into rolling downs dotted with bushes and other small vegetation. On the far right one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin or Arab guides walks along a dune. Further beyond, the rest of

View of a house at a settlement in the Marshes

View of Jabal Harfa mountain near the village of Ash Shaykh

His camel stands on a clump of sedge on the side of a sand dune

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through sand dunes in the vicinity of the Ramlat Unayq

Portrait of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

Behind the saluki Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (far left) rides at the head of a line of falconers and a young boy riding camels

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party travelling from Khawr bin 'Atarit well in the Ghanim Sands to the Ramlat al Ghafah

View of houses at Waigal

Tendong Shappe in black fox fur hat and gold coloured chuba

Muhammad bin Fadil sits astride his camel

at a camp north of Al Ain during the party's journey between Al Ain and the Ramlat Unayq sands

He wears a patterned ghutra (headscarf)