Creek at Dubai Type:art print

Creek at Dubai Type:art printView of boats in the creek in Dubai, with several people walking in shallow water in the foreground. 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.

while above the sky is empty of clouds

where Wilfred Thesiger grew up

View of an abra (ferry boat) launch at Dubai Creek

In the distance men sail in a small dhow

one of whom carries the head of a Barbary sheep (shot in the Jabal Meidob hills) over his shoulders

Wilfred Thesiger stands at the centre (third from left) holding a camel stick

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party leading several laden camels across the Muqta to Abu Dhabi island

View of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's falconry party riding camels in Al Khatam sands near Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit)

View of a leopard driven off its kill and up a tree by a pride of lions

Each boy wears a thobe (long shirt) and a headscarf (ghutra)

View of a small dhow being launched by a group of men at Abu Dhabi

Behind them the sea stretches out empty and uninterrupted to the far horizon