View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Size:medium

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Size:mediumView of Wilfred Thesiger's party at a well in the Wadi 'Andam, west of Qabil al Bu Said village. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.

In the far right distance a member of the party sits at the top of a high dune

lead camels on foot through the dunes

In the background three large ghaf [Prosopis cineraria] trees grow in the distance

Further beyond the party's camels graze on a large dry river bed dotted with trees and large bushes

tracks run across the sand to where three of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions ride in a line between rolling sand dunes

The child is standing beside a hawd

View of dunes and a vast sand flat in the 'Uruq ash Shaybah region of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

a second man stands beside a wooden post resting in the sand

while on the right a few men are hauling water

View of Wilfred Thesiger's sailing companions sitting on the deck of a sailboat (dhow) in the Abu Dhabi islands

a MacQueen's Bustard (houbara)

He is holding a length of rope and carrying a rifle