View of sailors preparing to ... Type:unstretched canvas

View of sailors preparing to ... Type:unstretched canvasView of sailors preparing to hoist sails on a dhow (sailboat) in the Persian Gulf near Dubai. Two sailors stand in the foreground, one facing forward and one facing backward. Behind them a group of sailors mill about beneath the dhow's main yard in front of the cockpit and the main mast. Above them another sailor stands on the main yard, in front of a large sail which is beginning to fill with wind. This image was taken during Wilfred Thesiger's May

In the foreground a man walks toward a group of saddled and loaded camels resting beside a low tree

Carvings of deities can be seen in the lowest band of carvings and one of Atisha or Tsongkhapa in the bottom left of the image has been carved into the rock face in the round

Other people and huts in the background

View of Al Fahidi fort in the Bastakiya quarter of old Dubai

Portrait of a middle-aged man of the Bin Maaruf lineage of Sa'ar Bedouin in the Raydat as Say'ar

low rolling downs fill the distance to the far horizon

The wall on the right encloses a date palm grove

while the rider looks back over his shoulder into the foreground

some of which are crowned with wooden scaffolding

All of the eight retainers stand facing forward

Palm trees grow along the far side of the pool

The boy wears a khanjar (dagger) over his thobe (shirt) and an embroidered headscarf tied with an 'agal (head rope)