View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:stretched canvas

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:stretched canvasView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Uruq az Zayza sands 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.

A man from the Duru Bedouin tribe stands in half profile

View of two Bedouin tribesmen

who carry spears and ambatch shields (and wear thiau armrings on their left or right arms)

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party trekking through the Al Qafa' or As Saruq region north of Liwa oasis

Wilfred Thesiger is in the middle row

a number of large salt bushes dot its edge

from where Wilfred Thesiger sailed after his Awash expedition

He is sitting in front of a fire at an encampment

In front of them an urn sits on the fire and cooking equipment and supplies lie in the sand surrounding them

looking towards the sea

In the left foreground a clutch of trees grow on the dune

Half length portrait of Wilfred Thesiger taken during his party's journey from the As Saruq sands to Abu Dhabi near the end of his second journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)