View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:unstretched canvas

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:unstretched canvasView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party walking across a dune in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands. Three of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions walk with their camels along a dune ridge. In the distance behind them a flat plain dotted with small vegetation can be seen in a depression between the surrounding high dunes. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by

heading from the near left foreground towards the far right

haul water from a well

Rifles stand muzzle-first in the sand beside him

The young man kneels in a field of grass

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party descending a dune in the 'Uruq ash Shaybah sands of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

Another young man is sitting behind him

Higher mountains to the left and in the background

Seated portrait of one of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's retainers in Al Ain

In the distance on the left a man leads a goat along a ridge towards a date palm grove tucked in a depression beneath the dune on the right

In the foreground a few people stand at the entranceway to a hut made from palm leaves or branches

One man is leaning out of the well

He holds the ibex's head upright by its horns