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

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:unstretched canvasView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) during the party's journey from Jaladah plain to Bani Ma'arid sands. 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.

In the distance beyond low rolling dunes stretch out towards the horizon below a vast cloudless sky

leading to where three of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions pause in the sand in the left distance

View of the Greater Zab river flowing down a valley

He wears cartridge over his thobe (long shirt and a dark ghutra (headscarf)

one of whom is standing

Salim bin Kabina (centre left)

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party resting at a falaj (irrigation channel) at the southern end of Jabal Hafit

Sheikh Maziad bin Hamdan of the Al Essa tribe

In the central foreground three Bedouin women sit on the ground in front of a well

In the foreground three Arab men and a boy stand beside a group of donkeys

In the far background a breakwater shelters the shoreline

In the foreground is a tent between two trees