View of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin ... Iraq

View of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin ... IraqView of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling companions drinking coffee with Hamad bin Saadna in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands east of Liwa. Five men kneel in a semicircle around a cooking pot and two ceramic cups. The young man second from left is Salim bin Kabina, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin. In the centre is Muhammad al Auf, a tribesman of the Bayt Mbarik lineage of Rashid Bedouin. Second from the right is Hamad bin Saadna

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through Al Batin sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Al Dhafra sands to Liwa oasis

Wilfred Thesiger's party in the Ramlat as Sahmah

rises high above nearby buildings

Portrait of a young woman (named Matara)

Portrait of a recently circumcised Samburu boy wearing a black goat skin and ostrich feathers and small bird skins attached to his headband

In the distance beyond the dune continues to rise higher into a crescent shaped crest on the right

View of the monolithic rock-hewn church of Emanuel at Lalibela

In the far right distance Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party rests in a depression at the bottom of a high sand dune amongst large bushes

large Kuwaiti-built trading vessels

The man is holding a rifled

which is comprised of square one storey houses built from stone

View of a j