Wilfred Thesiger's party at Ghayl ... Size:medium

Wilfred Thesiger's party at Ghayl ... Size:mediumWilfred Thesiger's party at Ghayl bin Yumayn. Five men stand together in front of a campground. Wilfred Thesiger stands in the middle. At the far left, the man wearing trousers is from the Beduin Legion, which was camped on the outskirts of the town. 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.

On the right a second rowboat sits beside a beached dhow with a cloth covered deck canopy

View of a salt flat and dunes in Al Batin sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

walk behind the palm

A crowd of people stand around the well

In the right background a grove of date palms grows alongside the fort

He wears a striped waistcoat over his thobe (long shirt) and has a small plaid ghutra (headscarf) tied closely around his head

He has braided hair

Distant view of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party standing in a mountain landscape near Wadi 'Arf

A shrine or tomb in the city of Seiyun in Hadhramawt

In the distance on the right another boom is moored in the flat

Seated portrait of a teenaged boy from one of the Qara tribes in the Jabal Qara mountains above Wadi Nihiz

View of the (seventeenth-century) castle of Fasilidas at Gondar