Seated portrait of Sahail bin ... Special Orders

Seated portrait of Sahail bin ... Special OrdersSeated portrait of Sahail bin Tahi, a tribesman of the Mudairiba lineage of Rashid Bedouin and one of Wilfred Thesiger's guides, at a well south west of Al Ain oasis. Sahail bin Tahi kneels in sand in front of a number of water skins lying in the sand. He has a large grey beard, curly dark hair, and wears a patterned wraparound skirt. Behind him a few camels are couched in the sand. This image was taken during Wilfred Thesiger's journey from Al Ain to

Three-quarter length standing portrait of an Arab boy in Dubai

Portrait of a woman of the Harasis Bedouin sitting on the ground in the region between Boi well and Yisub well in the Jiddat al Harasis

In the distance beyond a large expanse of flat sand runs to the far horizon

Seated portrait of Sheikh Mubarak bin Mohammed Al Nahyan kneeling in the sand next to one of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's retainers

A group of the Humum Bedouin

In the background a saluki hunting dog walks across a vast flat dotted with low bushes

He is holding on to a large sail that is spread out across the background

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking across a flat plain parallel to the Wadi Umm al Hayt

which rises in the distance

faces forward

north of the Wadi Hadhramawt

with the head and neck of a camel prominent in the foreground