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

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:blackView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party heading towards palm groves in Liwa oasis. Salim bin Ghabiasha, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, stands in the right foreground on the slope of a large sand dune. He is holding a rifle and a small stick. At the bottom of the slope five of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions lead their camels in a line towards one of four date palm groves in the far distance. The groves sit in

View from behind of a young man standing in the prow of Wilfred Thesiger's tarada (sheikh's canoe)

Views of dhows moored off the beach at Tajura on the Djibouti coast

Further back many one and two storey houses line the banks of the creek

Mountains rising behind

View of locals strolling through a suq (market) in the city of Sharjah

its wings folded along its chest

The two men at the back of the line both carry falcons

near Al Ain

In the background clumps of vegetation grow scattered on a flat depression between sand dunes

Four of Sheikh Zayed's falconers

Full length standing portrait of a man wearing two daggers in straight sheaths over his thobe (shirt) in the city of Abha

View of locals strolling through a suq (market) in the city of Dubai