Seated portrait of an Arab ... Frame:black

Seated portrait of an Arab ... Frame:blackSeated portrait of an Arab man, one of Wilfred Thesiger's guides, riding a camel during the party's journey from Jabal Sumeini to the port city of Sharjah. The man, a retainer of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, kneels in his saddle [most of the camel's body is outside the frame]. He is looking down at his hands, in which he holds a small branch (used as a camel stick) and the reins of his camel. He wears a ghutra (headscarf) and a thobe (long

Two men walk camels down the side of a low sand dune

Behind the grove softly rolling dunes stretch along the horizon

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party watering their camels at a well in the Ghanim sands

View of boats moored and beached along the Corniche in the city of Sharjah

View of houses and boats at a settlement in the Marshes

In the foreground a line of footprints marks the wind-rippled sand

At the centre a man in a light coloured thobe (long shirt) pulls on the head rope of a saddled camel

Seated group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger with Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and his family and retainers near Al Ain

He wears a loose ghutra (headscarf) tied with an 'agal (head rope) and a light coloured thobe (shirt)

Group of Lhasa mummers

View of buildings at a settlement in the Munjan valley

smoking a water-pipe