Half length standing portrait of ... Type:art printHalf length standing portrait of an Arab man of the Al Bu Shams in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. An old man with a curly grey beard and a neatly trimmed moustache stands in front of a leafless bush. He wears a striped blanket over his dark thobe (long shirt) and a plain ghutra (headscarf). This image was taken between December 20, 1948, and January 27, 1949, during which time Wilfred Thesiger stayed with Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan in Al Ain and
a tribesman of the Awamir Bedouin
On the far side of the fields adobe and stone buildings in the city of Abha are clustered together
Footprints lead from the near left to the central foreground where three of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions walk down a steeply sloping sand dune
Portrait of three boys near Abha
View of a narrow street in Jaisalmer
In the distance beyond the mountain Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet) rises high above the horizon
Portrait of sailors on the deck of a dhow (sailboat) in Dubai Creek
The Sultan's Palace sits in the distance beyond
Standing half length profile portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha
In the foreground two men leading two camels
while in the background on the right a man stands beside one of the dhows (sailboats) beached in the sand
At the centre one man stands in the water near a dhow and a rowboat
