View of a member of ... Thesiger Collection

View of a member of ... Thesiger CollectionView of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party leading his camel through a gap between two high dunes in the 'Uruq ash Shaybah. The 'Uruq ash Shaybah dunes are some of the highest dunes in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). 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.

which rises to a peak on the right

which rises to a point in the far right distance

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a Bani Yas palm grove and settlement near Radum in Liwa oasis

a sheikh of the Sh'asha lineage of Bayt Kathir Bedouin

Behind him a vast expanse of flat sand continues from the foreground to jagged mountains in the far distance

is a couched camel

soft volcanic tufa in which thousands of artificial caves have been dug by a preceding race

Standing portrait of a teenaged boy from one of the Qara tribes in the Jabal Qara mountains

View of a woman of the Sa'ar Bedouin sitting with a young boy and a baby at Manwakh well

east of the wells at Sanaw

In the background long dune chains stretch out into the far distant horizon

and his sons in the Ramlat ar Rabbad for a few days during their first crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) in December 1946