View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Portraits of notable people

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Portraits of notable peopleView of Wilfred Thesiger's party crossing a dune in the Al Khatam sands south of Al Ain, on their journey towards Al Humrah sands. On the left two of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions wait on their their camels while a third member of the party rides over the crest of a dune followed by a baggage camel. On the right a fourth man with another baggage camel rides past two trees growing on the side of the dune. The dune is dotted a few tufts of

Group portrait of five boys

wearing beaded jewellery around her neck

He is wearing a light-coloured thobe (shirt) topped with a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt and suspenders

These are square buildings with small windows and flat roofs

The tent style is distinctively non-Tibetan and the amchi is supporting his texts upon a package crate

Further beyond a number of men and women walk through the market

In the suq at Al Hufuf in the country of the Al Hasa

while the lower storey is completely walled in

is less characteristic of the typical terraced formed pueblos

holding animal skins filled with butter

In the distance beyond a steep ravine cuts through high barren plains

View of a man carrying a heavy load through a street in the city of Shibam