View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Frame:natural

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Frame:naturalView of Wilfred Thesiger's party riding through the Al Qafa' or As Saruq region north of Liwa oasis. Two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, tribesmen of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, sit on their camels beside a small bush at the bottom of a dune. Each man leads a tethered baggage camel behind their own mount. Behind the men is a large, crescent shaped dune which is mostly bare of vegetation. The rock floor beneath the sand is

Some of the men are firing their muskets into the air

View of five tethered peregrine falcons sitting on their blocks

In the distance the limestone cliffs of Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet) rise in jagged peaks high above the plain

on which many flies sit

riding a female thoroughbred Wahiba camel near Al Qabil

View of a boy standing in a boat

while further along a small rowboat is tied alongside the stern

which is laid out on the ground in a wide circle

with two girls sitting beside them

stands in the right foreground on the slope of a large sand dune

In the near distance one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions walks past a grazing camel

Group portrait of a crowd of Arab men and boys in the town of Ash Shuqaiq