View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:stretched canvas

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:stretched canvasView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through Al Dhafra sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Dhibi well to Al Batin sands. Three of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, tribesmen of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, cross a vast empty flat plain dotted with sparse tufts of vegetation. Two men are mounted on camels, while the third man (centre) leads his two camels on foot. In the

of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin standing in sandy ground at Habarut wells

had collapsed from illness and was subsequently butchered for food

He is wearing a light western waistcoat over his long thobe (shirt)

Standing portrait of a Rashid Bedouin man

He wears a waistcoat over his thobe (shirt) and a thick black 'agal (head rope) over his ghutra (headscarf)

It is decorated with lime plaster

In the far background a ridge of low dunes borders the flat along the horizon in the far distance

Portrait of two Bedouin men from Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party tending dinner in camp during the party's journey to Al Mukalla

which is laid out on the ground in a wide circle

in Liwa oasis

Two women stand beside a third women who squats on the ground

Looking out from an enclosure into the landscape in Yam tribal territory