View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Size:small

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Size:smallView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through the Bani Hilal tribal area near Jabal Sharif. 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.

View of an uneven plain and far dunes in Al Batin sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

The British Mission lunch with the Lord Chamberlain

where a further set of dunes runs along the far horizon

is manufactured by the Isletas

pouring coffee from a pot into a small cup

Tall mud buildings line both sides of the street

Portrait of a young man at Umm al Khashab

In the foreground a large compound of 'arish huts

which is made of carved wood

and slope across the far distance towards the right

gathered around the head and carcass of a dead camel which

View of yellow-flowering tribulus (zahra) and a sedge (qassis) growing in the desert sands some time after heavy rain