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

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:unstretched canvasView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands). In the foreground men rest amongst three low trees growing in an area of flat sand. Equipment and blankets lie in the sand surrounding the trees. In the right foreground a camel is grazing in the sand. In the distance beyond scattered vegetation grows on low rolling dunes. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party camping beneath a large ghaf [Prosopis cineraria] tree at the western end of the Wadi Mughshin

Two of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin travelling companions

and snow-covered mountains (and the Chianta glacier just visible) in the distance

The rope is attached to a bucket which the man in the centre (Salim bin Kabina

wearing knives across their waists from which hang leather tassels denoting how many men each has killed

He is smiling and holds a stick in his hands

soldiers of the Royalist forces

holding a rope

This picture was taken at Boi when Wilfred Thesiger's smaller crossing party rejoined the larger Bedouin expedition party lead by Sultan bin Ahmad and Salim bin Tamtaim

the wheel of law and other gilt ornamentation

View of five members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding across a gravel plain east of the Wadi Katabit/Wadi Andhur junction

At the right more dunes rise in the far distance beyond the plain