View of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin ... Jacques-Philippe Potteau

View of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin ... Jacques-Philippe PotteauView of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions and Wahiba Bedouin at Buraymah well in the Wadi Halfayn. On the far left Hamad, a tribesman of the Mahra Bedouin, stands with his back to the foreground, his body turned to the left. To his right a few men of the Wahiba Bedouin haul water from a well. In the right background a boy of the Wahiba Bedouin stands with a flock of sheep. In the distance beyond a vast flat plain of sand is bordered by a line of

near Khamis Mushait

In the left foreground a man and two boys

holding a hooded peregrine falcon on his left arm

is riding his camel down a steep dune slope

At the far right one of the men looks through binoculars into the left distance

next to some tire tracks

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party

Behind the men is a large

with animals grazing in the distance

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in camp in Al Humrah sands during their journey to Umm az Zumul

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party resting with their camels in the Ghanim Sands during the party's journey from Mughshin Oasis to Khawr bin 'Atarit well

migrating from summer pastures in the mountains to the plains around Mosul