View of dunes in the ... Frame:gold

View of dunes in the ... Frame:goldView of dunes in the Al Dhafra sands between Dhibi well and Al Batin sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). In the foreground a small flat area with a few tufts of vegetation is bordered on the left by a line of low dunes. At the far right a second line of parallel dunes stretches into the horizon. 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

Behind him some bushes grow in the sand

Musallim bin Anauf

in front of a date palm plantation

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's party sitting on the crest of a dune in the Ghanim Sands

The ropes have been tied to a cow and a camel

In the distance beyond a vast sand flat

View of men loading Wilfred Thesiger's canoes with supplies

on which a coffee urn is being heated

A group of couched camels rest in a wide flat plain dotted with sparse shoots of vegetation

and beneath it equipment is piled in the sand

View of a kasbah (fortress) at Ahansal in the High Atlas range of mountains

The man is a sheikh of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin