Seated portrait of a tribesman ... Miscellaneous

Seated portrait of a tribesman ... MiscellaneousSeated portrait of a tribesman of the Rashid Bedouin at Muhammad's encampment near Bir al Tawil in the Ramlat ar Rabbad. This man is a son of Muhammad, a sheikh of the Rashid Bedouin with whom Wilfred Thesiger and his Bedouin companions stayed during Wilfred Thesiger's first crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) in December 1946. He is sitting cross legged in the sand with his hands clasped together and resting at his knee. Due to the nature

Market at Al Haqu village

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through the region of the Wadi al 'Ayn

Four men attend to baggage and supplies in an open area amongst low sand dunes

including a rifle

Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party eating dinner in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands

better known as Pedro Jose Quivera)

He is looking down at his hands

second from left) and another Druze soldier

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting on a dry farmer's field in the Al Ghamid tribal region between the villages of Al Makhwah and Thurayban

He is wearing a headscarf secured with a dark 'agal (head rope) and wears a silver embossed dagger (khanjar) on a belt over his shirt (thobe)

A peregrine falcon perches on a carved wooden wakir (block) staked in the sand on the crest of a sand dune

View of a man standing beside a beached dhow (sailboat) in Dubai Creek