View of Sheikh Zayed bin ... George Dixon Aked

View of Sheikh Zayed bin ... George Dixon AkedView of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party setting up camp in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. In the near distance a four men and a young boy (centre left) unload couched camels in the midst of a vast flat plain dotted with scattered clumps of vegetation. Three camels stand on the right in a group. In the far background a ridge of low dunes borders the flat along the horizon in the far distance. This image was taken between December 20,

Portrait of a woman of the Harasis Bedouin sitting on the ground in the region between Boi well and Yisub well in the Jiddat al Harasis

with cultivated terraces on a hillside in the foreground

People walk along the far sandy bank

Behind them market stalls with large wooden doors line the street

A group of joined buildings sits in the near distance on the far side of terraced cultivated fields

wearing an elaborate headdress

Portrait of a Samburu moran (warrior)

taken from near the Baroghil Pass

Seated portrait of a Bedouin tribesman at Sheikh Zayid bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting camp in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain

This well is likely the well called Khaur Sabkha (literally

turtle and toad

In the foreground a woman stands with a group of Bedouin (some of whom are members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party)