Seated portrait of a tribesman ... Frame:gold

Seated portrait of a tribesman ... Frame:goldSeated portrait of a tribesman of the Duru Bedouin in the Wadi al 'Ayn. A tribesman of the Duru Bedouin sits in the sand facing towards the right, his face turned towards the foreground. He wears a checked cloth hanging around his head and shoulders and a cartridge belt over his thobe (shirt). Behind him blankets lie in the sand and a tuft of vegetation grows. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage

View of several men standing and sitting in front of a tent

kneels on the left

In the salt flat (sabkha) beyond a grove of date palms grows

Spectators in courtyard of government summer house near Lhalu Mansion on the outskirts of Lhasa

A tribesman of the Manasir Bedouin with a thick dark beard sits facing towards the right wearing a light coloured thobe (long shirt) and a plain ghutra (headscarf) topped with an 'agal (head rope)

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in the Wadi Gharah near Mudayy

A smiling older Bedouin man with a thick beard sits in the sand

Further back a line of camels wait behind the men

The men are camped next to a rock strewn hillside

The buildings on the left are topped only with adobe

View of dhows (sailboats) moored a below a rock outcrop during Wilfred Thesiger's trip through the Abu Dhabi islands with Sheikh Hazaa bin Sultan Al Nahyan and his retainers

and an upright bow