View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Africa

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... AfricaView 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. Two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, tribesmen of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, lead a caravan of camels along soft sands on the edge of a salt flat (sabkha). At the right a man stands on one leg at the head of a line of camels. A second man is mounted

The men are using a rope and a pulley made of wood to haul water from the well

View of two buildings in a village near the city of Abha

A boy wearing a ghutra (headscarf) and wraparound skirt stands in sand on the left

View of a peregrine falcon (shahin) killing its prey

His ghutra hangs loosely around his head and down over his chest

The attendant is wearing a winter hat and the group are standing in a courtyard outside a house

Portrait of a man taken at a village in Bal Qarn tribal territory in the region between Jabal Harfa and the Wadi Shaybanah

On the right many houses

plaiting a rope for use at Manwakh well

Both the boy and the youth each hold a short sword

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party resting in camp at Furai well in Sharqiyah Sands

A second pile of equipment sits in the sand on the left