View of a member of ... Afghanistan

View of a member of ... AfghanistanView of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party crossing a salt flat in Al Batin sands, near Liwa oasis, in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). The man, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, is riding his camel past a small triangular hill in the midst of a vast salt flat (sabkha). A baggage camel, tethered to the back of his mount, follows behind him. Little vegetation grows in the sand in the foreground. In the far distance

He wears a cartridge belt with suspenders over his thobe (shirt) and a plain headscarf topped with an 'agal (head rope)

View of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party riding camels in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain

one is standing

A crowd of people stand around the well

Behind him two men

'[e]vidences of silver and copper mining[

Bushes and a few small trees grow in the sands

A minaret it in the foreground to the right

In foreground flooded ground

a tribesman of the Junuba Bedouin

At the centre left a Bedouin tribesman (possibly a member of Wilfred Thesiger's party) kneels with his hands in his lap

In the background Qasr Ibrahim fort sits in the distance