View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Iraq

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... IraqView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through Al Batin sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Al Dhafra sands to Liwa oasis. Members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, tribesmen of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, ride through a large salt flat (sabkha) with their baggage camels. The flat is sparsely dotted with salt bushes. The sands in the foreground are bare except for a few scattered

A boy wearing a collared shirt and a wraparound skirt stands on a street corner holding a silver tray on which cups

The man sits cross-legged in the sand facing forward

View of rocky terrain in the Jabal Meidob hills

View of a sand flat between dunes in Al Batin sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

Wilfred Thesiger met the boys and their mother

its head turned to to the right

The jewellery is very heavy with the earrings being made of gold and turquoise and the amulet made of gold

pots and bowls

Rolling dunes stretch into the far background

View of huts in Ash Shuqaiq village

Behind the men the rest of the party is sitting

sits beside a tree in an expanse of sand