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

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:unstretched canvasView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through Al Dhafra sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Dhibi well to Al Batin sands. Three of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, tribesmen of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, ride their camels across a flat stretch of sand. Behind each man's mount baggage camels follow on leads. In the foreground the sand is marked with patterns of ridges and

The young Arab man is drilling holes into wooden blocks

with a fisherman inspecting his catch in the foreground

View of Bedouin men in Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party talking with Qara tribesmen and boys at a camp in the Jabal Qara mountains

holding a piece of rope in his hands

with cattle (and buffaloes) in the background

a settlement for more than six centuries and the northernmost of the Rio Grande pueblos

Further behind them a small boy stands in the grass

In the far distance Jebel Kawr mountain rises above the trees that grow across the plain

At this time fresh water was imported to Kuwait by boat

A group of Manahil Bedouin at Fughmah

One man is leaning out of the well

The building on the right has been decorated with ornamental lime plaster