View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Pakistan

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... PakistanView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party walking through a palm grove in Liwa oasis. In the foreground four tall date palm trees grow in a depression. Four of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin travelling companions walk along a ridge of sand behind the palms. One of the men leads a camel on a head rope, while the other three follow behind. In the background a large grove of date palms, cultivated by local Arab villagers, grows in the sand. In the

a samurai and officer (performing the function of deputy secretary) on the 1864 Ikeda mission to France

sits with his body facing forward and his eyes half-closed

The three magistrates of Shö with clerks on left in their Court Room

View of Kibo peak on the snow-covered Mount Kilimanjaro (5

playing the African game of mancala

off the coast near Scarborough (circa 1830s)

A boy in a ghutra (headscarf) and a thobe (long shirt) walks across a mound of stones below the walls of Al Fahidi fort

Alaiwa bin Lutaiya

dig out a well while a few camels wait expectantly nearby

He holds onto his khanjar (dagger) with his right hand

Al Dhafra and Baynunah sands in November and December 1948

wearing beaded necklaces and a hat decorated with many rows of shells