View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Size:large

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Size:largeView of Wilfred Thesiger's party trekking through the As Saruq sands north of Liwa oasis during their journey to Abu Dhabi. In the foreground a low dune rises to the right, while behind it an expanse of low crescent shaped dunes stretch out into the distance. At the right, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, walks his camel through the sand. In the further distance at the centre,

each mounted on a camel

a Zuni 'outpost or summer resort'

Portrait of two members of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hawking party riding camels in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain

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

looking at a number of people seated on the deck

part of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin

In the foreground people gather around market stalls selling woven baskets

View of the new British Legation building (constructed 1910-11) in Addis Ababa

In the background trees and bushes grow in the sand behind a ridge

Behind them small tufts of vegetation grow in the sand

Wilfred Thesiger sits in the centre of the back row

pulling on a line of rope