View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Size:medium

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Size:mediumView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through the region of Kidan plains (Suhul al Kidan) or Al Batin sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). Four of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions lead their camels in a caravan towards the top of a softly sloping dune. 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.

A two storey barjeel (wind tower) atop its roof

He is also wearing a ghutra (headscarf)

In the background another large tree grows in the distance on the vast flat plain dotted with vegetation

In the foreground two children sit at the front of a two-wheeled cart behind pulled across the sand into shallow water by a donkey

with a poling stick resting on his lap

In the foreground a member of Wilfred Thesiger's party rides a camel on a rocky flat dotted with trees and bushes

Monks carrying banners waiting in the procession below the Potala at the Sertreng festival held on the 30th day of the second Tibetan month

Frederick Spencer Chapman

View of houses at Korgal

View of men on horseback at the Feast of the Throne

A wall with a gateway is in front of it

In the far distance a sheer faced rock mountain (likely Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit]) sits below the horizon