Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger standing ... Size:largePortrait of Wilfred Thesiger standing with one of his travelling companions at Salalah, at the beginning of the party's journey to Al Mukalla. 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.
View of a narrow street in Shibam
Two of the camels are drinking from the same bowl
On the left two Bedouin men dig out a well while two camels wait beside them for water
In the central background an adobe house sits beside a large fort with high walls and square towers
a samurai and officer (performing the function of first secretary) on the 1864 Ikeda mission to France
Thesiger's party at the start of the journey into the Empty Quarter in the Uruq al Zaza
a leather trough with a wooden frame
View of round huts at a village in the lower Wadi Damad
Exposed rings of sedimentary sandstone sit above the sand floor of the depression
The party's equipment lies in the sand surrounding the bush
Forested parkland can be seen on the left hand side of the river
which slopes up into a low crest in the background
