Portrait of people collecting water ... Thesiger Collection

Portrait of people collecting water ... Thesiger CollectionPortrait of people collecting water from a well in Ad Darb. In the foreground a man and a boy stand beside a donkey carrying large clay water jugs. Behind them, on the left, another boy is sitting on a donkey. In the background many people wait with their donkeys beside the well while two men use ropes and pulleys to get water from the well. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before

The men walk in single file alongside their camels up the side of a dry

Wilfred Thesiger stands in a large expanse of flat sand to the left of the camel on which he made his second journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

Beyond the escarpment at the far right is a plain dotted with sparse vegetation

holding a water-skin

View of a valley in the region north of the city of Ad Dali' in Ad Dali' Governorate

donkeys and a sheep wait beside the well

View of one of Wilfred Thesiger's guides atop Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] mountain

A group of people with a camel and some goats

View of the crests of sand dunes in the Ramlat as Sahmah

holds his hand above his face to block the sun

Behind him two couched camels rest in the sand

In the near distance two members of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party ride across a mound of sand