Desert landscape of a wide ... Arabia

Desert landscape of a wide ... ArabiaDesert landscape of a wide barren gravel plain fringed by low hills in Hadhramawt between Huliyah and Makhari. In the distance three men walk ahead of the rest of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling party. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.

At the right

The bed of the wadi is strewn with small rocks

Merchants sit at stalls housed in 'arish huts along the left side of the market aisle

In the far distance members of Wilfred Thesiger's party stand at a well opening in the centre of a large depression

Decorated with snow lions and

View of two Arab boys walking across a sandy valley filled with sunken gardens in the Wadi Fatimah near Mecca

(possibly Norbhu concealed)

In the distance a steep rocky mountain rises to a high point

Wilfred Thesiger's party in a wadi at Fughmah

In the foreground people sit and stand in an open air market

View of a crowd of people standing on a small dune in front of Al Muwaiji fort in Al Ain

In the left distance one of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions leads a camel up a sand dune dotted with tufts of qassis (sedge)