Seated profile portrait of Salim ... John K. Hillers

Seated profile portrait of Salim ... John K. HillersSeated profile portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin and one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, on one of the Abu Dhabi islands. Salim bin Ghabaisha crouches on a rocky outcrop looking into the far left distance. He is wearing a patterned izaar (wraparound skirt), and holds a piece of a plant in his right hand. This image was taken during Wilfred Thesiger's week and a half long sailing trip

View of men dancing at a circumcision celebration

In the background a large clump of bushes grows between sand dunes

when Wilfred Thesiger stayed at Al Muwaiji fort in Al Ain as a guest of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

on a spear fishing excursion in the Marshes

with two men standing in the foreground

View of a man walking in Al Muwaiji

In the centre foreground a saker (hurr) falcon perches on a wakir (block)

Equipment and supplies lie scattered around them

Close up portrait of a thoroughbred Omani camel in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain

View of tall buildings at Sanaa

below Jabal Harfa

the Regent of Abyssinia (and later the Emperor Haile Selassie)