View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:stretched canvas

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:stretched canvasView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking towards a palm grove in Liwa oasis. In the foreground a few clumps of qassis (sedge) grow scattered across an expanse of bare sand. Further beyond four of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions ride camels across sand towards a few groves of date palms. The groves grow in a depression along the edge of a sand flat, below a high, sheer faced dune that rises on the left. In the distance low sand

A dhow (sailboat) is visible just behind the near boat

Behind them a thick cluster of salt bushes grows along the edge of a large salt flat (sabkha) between two ridges of high dunes

Each man wears a ghutra (headscarf) and a thobe (long shirt)

Portrait of a man of the Yam Bedouin on a donkey at Najran

Three Duru Bedouin tribesman sit in the sand

standing in the doorway of a shelter

gilt copper pagoda roof of the tomb of the 13th Dalai Lama

working on the prow of Wilfred Thesiger's tarada (sheikh's canoe)

The sand beneath the camel is entirely bare of any vegetation

Distant view of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a well in Al Batin sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Al Dhafra sands to Liwa oasis

crouches in the sand in front of a tree

Oba Eweka II seated with a group of men and youths