View of the landscape surrounding ... Size:large

View of the landscape surrounding ... Size:largeView of the landscape surrounding the city of Jeddah or At Taif. In the foreground car tracks criss cross a vast sandy plain, which stretches out towards a long low mountain ridge in the distance. 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.

taken during the party's journey through the upper Wadi al Batha' east of Qabil al Bu Said village

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling loading up their camels in the Sharqiyah Sands

He is standing in front of a dune and carries a rifle on his shoulder

Group of chiefs and notables at wedding ceremony witnessed by British Association members

which is visible on the right

View of houses at Umsanat in the Anti-Atlas range of mountains

Behind them the sea stretches out uninterrupted to the far horizon

View of a fort or city walls in the town of Al Qatif on the Persian Gulf coast

stands on the slope of a near sand dune

wearing Arab dress

standing in front of a wall in Dubai

Prominent in the foreground of the photograph are two wagons with horses in harness: the smaller vehicle