View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... George Dixon Aked

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... George Dixon AkedView 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 their mounts along the crest of a high dune which surrounds a flat plain. In the foreground the men's camels walk past a clump of bushes, some of them grazing on the

The nearest dhow

and a boy standing at the left of the image

likely members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party

He is standing on one leg and is wearing a fur jacket

He wears a dark thobe (long shirt) and a plain ghutra (headscarf)

View of camel in a wadi bed in the region between Dahal well and Qabr Hud well

Group portrait of three men and three boys from one of the Qara tribes in the Jabal Qara mountains

He carries a rifle over his shoulder and holds a camel stick

while on the right one and two storey houses sit close together in the Shindagha district

View of scattered vegetation growing amongst sand dunes in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) in the region between Jaladah plain and the Bani Ma'arid sands

its head next to Musallim bin Al Kamam's knees

Some of the men also wear khanjars (daggers) on cartridge belts over their thobe