View of a high ridge ... Type:stretched canvas

View of a high ridge ... Type:stretched canvasView of a high ridge atop Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] mountain. In the middle distance a ridge of limestone, mostly bare of vegetation, rises high on the left and slopes down in peaks towards the far right. In the foreground a dry watercourse runs along the bottom of the ridge down to the right. Beyond the ridge a vast plain dotted with sparse vegetation spreads out into the far distance. Wilfred Thesiger spent a week on Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit]

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View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding across the Sharqiyah Sands from Tawi Harian well to Batha' Badiyah

In the foreground a line of tracks crosses a sand ridge

Portrait of Sheikh Hazaa bin Sultan Al Nahyan with a number of men on a dhow (sailboat) in the Abu Dhabi islands

surrounded by a high stone wall

situated in the far left background below a low dune ridge

In the foreground a man and a boy stand beside a donkey carrying large clay water jugs

People at Al Mukalla

reaching out with his hand

The young man at centre left also wears a thick 'agal (head rope) over his ghutra (headscarf)

with a man standing

The sea around the dhows is gently rippled by the wind