View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Special Orders

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Special OrdersView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through Al Batin sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Al Dhafra sands to Liwa oasis. Three members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, tribesmen of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, ride camels across a rolling plain bordered by high sheer dunes. In the foreground a large expanse of bare sand marked with a rippled surface. The plain behind the party is

Kuwaiti-built trading vessels

Two men stand in the small dhow

In the foreground Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammed Al Qasimi sits on a ledge atop his fort

Other people are crowding behind him

which are only worn at the time of the circumcision

Seated portrait of Salim bin Habarut

located on a tributary of the Rio Grande river

Standing portrait of two falconers in Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party

around which a number of Wahiba Bedouin stand

rippled sand

View of houses at a settlement in the Tochi valley

View of Dinka men and women carrying spears and ambatch parrying shields (and wearing ormanents and accessories) at a funeral dance near Malakal