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

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:naturalView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through the Al Dhafra sands during the party's journey to Baynunah. In the left foreground a large bush grows in a stretch of wind rippled sand dotted with a few tufts of vegetation. In the distance beyond one of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions rides a camel across a stretch of sand dotted with a few bushes. In front of him bushes grow behind a ridge in a depression between dunes. In

Palm trees grow all around

both sitting on the ground

He holds a peregrine falcon on a mangalah (cuff) on his left arm

with Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the foreground

surrounded by plants and flowers

In the central foreground a tall date palm tree grows beside a depression on the left

He wears a plain ghutra (headscarf) and a dark thobe (shirt)

Standing portrait of two falconers in Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party

with Lawi standing on the verandah in the foreground

On the right four more men stand next to couched camels

View of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling party resting in a rocky wadi bed below Ayun spring

and on the right two more members of the party sit beside a shade canopy erected in a small stand of bushes