Wadi Umm al Hait Frame:natural

Wadi Umm al Hait Frame:naturalView of the Wadi Umm al Hait ('Mother of Life') after twenty five years of unbroken drought. 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.

Behind them two storey buildings fronted with wooden canopies line the square

Wilfred Thesiger's party making camp beneath tall trees during the party's journey from the Wadi al 'Ayn to the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands)

Faris Shahin Salah (Thesiger's orderly

a 92-gun vessel of the Royal Navy

In the foreground men stand in the tide beside a dhow

standing in front of a building

View of the wall of a large building in the city of Shibam

the opening of which has been reenforced with concrete or rammed earth

east of Sabya

In the left distance sits Qasr Ibrahim fort

and a camel stick

Above them a man stands on the cockpit holding a piece of rope