View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Frame:white

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Frame:whiteView of Wilfred Thesiger's party in camp in the Wadi al 'Ayn. On the left Hamad, a Mahra retainer of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and one of Wilfred Thesiger's guides, stands in a flowing light coloured thobe (shirt). Behind him, on the right, a group of men sit in a circle on the ground. Musallim bin Al Kamam, a sheikh of the Musaifar lineage of Rashid Bedouin, sits in the circle at the far right of the group. Third from the right Mahalhal bin

View of a valley in the Qarra range of mountains

Wearing brocade chuba

At the right a number of shrubs and bushes grow on the dune ridges

one of which is drinking out of a metal pan

An older man with a long bushy grey beard and short hair sits facing the near left foreground

In the foreground one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling companions stands beside a tall tree growing on a rocky flat

smeared with white clay

sitting on the ground in the region between Shisr well and Mughshin Oasis

Portrait of a man and two boys of the Bin Maaruf lineage of Sa'ar Bedouin at Manwakh well

holding a block on which sits a saker falcon

In the far background more dhows are moored in the distance

and in the distance beyond low rolling dunes stretch off into the horizon