View of sailors changing the ... PakistanView of sailors changing the sail on a dhow (sailboat) travelling through the Persian Gulf from Dubai to Bahrain Island. A number of sailors perch on a wooden yard, untying a sail from the yard. At the centre one man stands on the roof of the cockpit. Below him, another man stands in front of the cockpit, looking over at the sail, which hangs down from the yard, filling the right foreground. This image was taken during Wilfred Thesiger's May 18 28,
View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking across a sand dune between oases in Liwa oasis
In the foreground a man sits on a wooden bench alongside a dirt thoroughfare in Sharjah
west of Makha'il village
Portrait of Zayed bin Sultan and Yasir bin Hamud
likely members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party
In the distance more high dunes rise at the edge of the plain
The market at Umm Al Khashab
A few hardy bushes dot the dune slopes
a tribesman of the Bayt Mbarik lineage of the Rashid Bedouin
A house made from adobe topped with parallel lines of raqf (slate) tiles sits in the right foreground
These triliths are found aligned with local watercourses
All three men are tribesmen of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin
