View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Size:mediumView of Wilfred Thesiger's party at a well in the Wadi 'Andam, west of Qabil al Bu Said village. 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.
In the far right distance a member of the party sits at the top of a high dune
lead camels on foot through the dunes
In the background three large ghaf [Prosopis cineraria] trees grow in the distance
Further beyond the party's camels graze on a large dry river bed dotted with trees and large bushes
tracks run across the sand to where three of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions ride in a line between rolling sand dunes
The child is standing beside a hawd
View of dunes and a vast sand flat in the 'Uruq ash Shaybah region of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)
a second man stands beside a wooden post resting in the sand
while on the right a few men are hauling water
View of Wilfred Thesiger's sailing companions sitting on the deck of a sailboat (dhow) in the Abu Dhabi islands
a MacQueen's Bustard (houbara)
He is holding a length of rope and carrying a rifle