View of a covered suq ... Size:medium

View of a covered suq ... Size:mediumView of a covered suq (market) in the city of Dubai. Locals walk through a covered market. Merchants sit at stalls that line both sides of the market aisle. Woven baskets and boxes sit along the near right side of the aisle. Rays of scattered sunlight filter through the palm frond canopy covering the market. 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

View of Abis village on the Hejaz plateau

Tall multi-storey buildings fronted with wooden balconies line the street

Behind the compound a tall building

the rest of Wilfred Thesiger's party ride camels across sands

holding the neck rope of one of four saddled camels which stand in a line behind him

standing outside the Great chorten at Gyantse

In the foreground people with palm mats

Three saddled camels are couched on a small patch of sandy ground in a bare rocky plain

a rifle and blankets are scattered on the ground under the tree

He is wearing a patterned izaar (skirt) and his hair is blown by the wind

with his wife and other British Legation staff arriving at the palace residence (Gibbi) of the Emperor Menelik

and is blinded with a leather hood