Wilfred Thesiger's party at a ... Tibet

Wilfred Thesiger's party at a ... TibetWilfred Thesiger's party at a well in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) in the region between 'Uruq ash Shaybah and Al Dhafra sands. Many camels crowd around a hawd, a leather trough with a wooden frame. At the right, men from Wilfred Thesiger's party. This well is likely the well called Khaur Sabkha (literally, "salt flat well"), which was the first well Wilfred Thesiger encountered after crossing the 'Uruq ash Shaybah. Due to the nature of these

View of two of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions resting under a tree in Al Ain / Buraimi oasis

He wears a dark thobe (long shirt) and his eyes are shaded by a plain ghutra (headscarf)

master of a dhow

A monk and a lay man are standing at the foot of the tower beside a ladder

Group portrait of Arab children in the city of Abha

Watercolour painting by John Bolton Woodthorpe of H

The buildings on the left are topped only with adobe

are docked in a line along the creek in a break between two houses

In the far distance a large white sabkha (salt flat) stretches out below a ridge of high rippled dunes

past piles of coral

in the centre of the image

View of an ornamented plaster-faced house