View of sailors hoisting sails ... Africa

View of sailors hoisting sails ... AfricaView of sailors hoisting sails on a dhow (sailboat) travelling through the Persian Gulf from Dubai to Bahrain Island. In the left foreground an African boy sits behind an array of rigging. Nearby a lifeboat sits on deck covered with rope. Right of the boat two lines of sailors pull on a thick rope. On the far right one man pulls on the ropes attached to a pulley. High above them a sail fills with wind. This image was taken during Wilfred Thesiger's

In the distance beyond large dunes dotted with a few tufts of qassis (sedge) sit high above a far salt flat

In the foreground Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling party walk and ride their camels along a high mountain pass

wrapped in a striped blanket

with a man sitting on rocks in the foreground

Boats moored on the Kiso River at Gifu

He is tugging at the izaar (wraparound skirt) he wears under his thobe (long shirt)

and in the distance beyond scattered vegetation grows across a vast plain of flat sand bordered at the horizon with a line of sand dunes

with a young man playing a large drum prominent in the foreground

View of buildings at Kubaish

Portrait of a woman

with houses in the distance

On the left a group of water sellers stand in the tide loading filled water skins onto donkeys