View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:gold

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:goldView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party making camp in the Wadi al 'Ayn during their journey towards the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat. In the near central distance three of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions unload two couched camels in the shelter of a few large bushes in the midst of a flat plain. All around the men piles of blankets, saddlery and equipment lie in the sand. In the far background more trees and small tufts of vegetation grow

In the background behind them men and camels mill about

View of a camel caravan resting before Al Mukalla

A bare salt flat (sabkha) lies beyond in the background at the right

standing in the doorway of a shelter

In the background the rest of the party is travelling across a plain

sits below the high wall of a ruined building

View of two Arab boys walking across a sandy valley filled with sunken gardens in the Wadi Fatimah near Mecca

The head and neck of a thoroughbred Omani face towards the left in a profile pose

Side street in Lhasa taken from Surkhang Se's house on the occasion of the Palden Lhamo procession

In the foreground wooden scaffolding frames a view of cooking pots sitting on a ledge in one corner of Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammed Al Qasimi's fort

He wears a khanjar (dagger) and a cartridge belt over his thobe (shirt)

In the background the mountain Jabal Thahran