View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Africa

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... AfricaView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting under trees in 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.

with his personal retainer Idris Daud

In the background there is a small pile of sticks

on Mount Kenya

Two men stand on the left

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking in the Uruq al Awarik sands of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking across a sand dune between near a Bani Yas settlement in Liwa oasis

established date palms grow in rows

View of volcanic country in the region between the cities of At Taif and Qalat Bishah

and the building is decorated with a frieze of stone slabs in a zigzag pattern along the top of the tomb walls

with one man tending a pot cooking over a fire

at a camp fire in the region of Baynunah sands

Wilfred Thesiger and his Bedouin companions stayed with Muhammad and his sons during Wilfred Thesiger's first crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) in December 1946