View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Iraq

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... IraqView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Wadi Haluf. In the left foreground two of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin guides sit on their mounts while the camels graze on a large tree. The tree is growing on the dry bed of the wadi, which is covered with small boulders. In the distance beyond steep rock slopes rise in the background. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they

sitting on a sand dune in Al Batin or Al Dhafra sands

hanging from the side of the building above the water

On the left many people sit or stroll beneath a covered thoroughfare

Wilfred Thesiger wears a cartridge belt with leather suspenders over his thobe (long shirt) and a patterned ghutra (headscarf)

and the third from the rear mast

Group portrait of an Arab family making coffee under a tree near the town of Qalat Bishah

View of a dhow (sailboat) under repair at the harbour in Kuwait City

also wearing uniform

Four of Wilfred Thesiger's Bayt Kathir Bedouin guides sit in a circle around a fire

protected from flooding by a low earth embankment

View of a tent at an ailoq (herdsmen's summer pasture camp)

which is partially shaded by a few cloth canopies