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Standing full length portrait of ... Frame:whiteStanding full length portrait of a man and a thoroughbred camel on an Abu Dhabi island. A man wearing a headscarf, thobe (ankle length shirt) and a suit jacket stands to the right of a large thoroughbred camel with a rough rope halter. The camel belongs to an Abu Dhabi sheikh and has been left to pasture on this island. The ground is covered in fine sand, tufts of grass and small shrubs. This image was taken during Wilfred Thesiger's week and a half

In the foreground a large bush grows at the side of a small patch of wind rippled sand

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling party standing on a hillside in a wadi near the well of Ma' Shadid

A man standing beside a well

with a falconer's leather arm protection and the falcon's hood lying on the ground

At the far left a third man walks on foot

View of a woman walking along on a street in the city of Dubai

many boats are beached along the shore

returning from Zanzibar to its home port of Kuwait

People at Al Mukalla

likely a fishing dhow

The Potala seen from the west across the plain

The village is one of the finest and most perfect in the whole system of pueblos