View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Jacques-Philippe Potteau

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Jacques-Philippe PotteauView of Wilfred Thesiger's party trekking through the As Saruq sands north of Liwa oasis during their journey to Abu Dhabi. A vast expanse of low sand dunes stretches out into the distance in all directions. The dunes have low sides which rise into small crescent shaped crests. In the foreground the side of a dune is ridged with tiny, secondary dunes. In the centre three members of Wilfred Thesiger's party, tribesmen of the Bayt Imani lineage of

with a man sitting at the coffee hearth and a lamp prominent overhead

The man carries a plait of [straw

likely made of coral

Portrait of an older man of the Harasis Bedouin in the Jiddat al Harasis at Boi well

attended by a Bedouin family

View of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's falconry party riding camels in Al Khatam sands near Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit)

Street in Shibam

In the left foreground a clutch of trees grow on the dune

On the far left a pot and a goatskin lie on the ground

View of houses at Kara

with three British officers of the Punitive Expedition [from left

View of dhows (sailboats) in Dubai Creek