View of two camels grazing ... Africa 2

View of two camels grazing ... Africa 2View of two camels grazing beside a Bedouin man in Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Wadi Hawshi. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.

In the distance beyond a few clusters of vegetation grow amongst rolling dunes

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

is situated on the edge of a high rocky mesa and is not liable to sand burial

View of Salim bin Ghabaisha and Salim bin Kabina

resting with their loads

Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger's Omani bodyguard and two Qara tribemen in Wadi Nihiz in the Jabal Qara mountains

In the foreground are two boys

employed as an interpreter of Dutch and English

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

View of locals in a suq (market) in the city of Dubai

View of the Sheikh Saad tombs at Mudayy from above

Each man leads a tethered baggage camel behind their own mount