View from the northern slopes ... Sue Johnson

View from the northern slopes ... Sue JohnsonView from the northern slopes of the Jabal Qara mountains out towards the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter). In the foreground steep barren slopes run down into a ravine. In the distance beyond dry wadis (riverbeds) and low peaks stretch out towards the 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.

standing outside a hut with two older men

All around the dhows the sea is flat and the sky clear of clouds

View of Wilfred Thesiger's sailing companions camping on one of the Abu Dhabi islands

View of people gathered under trees on a bank of the Turkwel River

Several hundred years old 30ft high Buddha figure

One of Wilfred Thesiger's sailing companions wades through shallow water towards a moored sailboat (likely the boat on which Wilfred Thesiger was sailing)

View of a large sand dune in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands

A monk holding out the Tsurphu seal which is decorated with embossed metalwork

leaning heavily to the left side

standing with a camel in the Al Batin sands

Portrait of boy

a tribesman of the Mudairiba lineage of Rashid Bedouin and one Wilfred Thesiger's companions