View of Sultan bin Ahmad ... George Dixon Aked

View of Sultan bin Ahmad ... George Dixon AkedView of Sultan bin Ahmad, one of the leaders of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, standing with a young boy and a man in a graveyard at Andhur. The men are standing in the midst of a graveyard. Sultan bin Ahmad, a sheikh of the Sh'asha lineage of Bayt Kathir Bedouin, stands to the left of the young boy. The graves are covered with piled stones. Upturned stones sit on the top of the graves. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce

In the foreground a dry bush pokes out of a sloping expanse of wind-rippled sand

A large expanse of water fills the area behind him

with several cattle in the foreground

Three men stand around the opening of a well

are decorated with pearls of wisdom and a trident on the top

One man leads his camels down on foot

In the distance beyond two sand dunes

View of a dry field in the Al Ghamid tribal region between the villages of Al Makhwah and Thurayban

Close up portrait of two boys in the suq (market) in the village of Al Makhwah

In the distance beyond lies a salt flat (sabkha) dotted with sparse vegetation

which is dotted with small tufts of vegetation and marked with the party's tracks

ride their camels across a flat stretch of sand