View of a Manasir Bedouin ... Type:stretched canvas

View of a Manasir Bedouin ... Type:stretched canvasView of a Manasir Bedouin encampment in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. In a wide expanse of sand dotted with scattered bushes two Manasir men sit in front of a large tent. The tent is clad in striped woven blankets and large palm mats. Cloths and a large platter rest on a large dry bush in front of the tent. In the distance beyond bushes grow across a vast plain of rolling sands, bordered along the far horizon by a line of low dunes. This image was

View of desert landscape in Al Batin sands near Liwa oasis

In the background people and huts

The man at the centre

with buffaloes prominent at the left and centre of the image

In the left foreground a falconer wearing a cap and a light coloured thobe (long shirt) bends over next to a standing camel

Around it plants and small vegetation grow on the sandy ground

one of whom holds a child in her arms

View of snow-covered mountains in the Hindu Raj range

Wilfred Thesiger's camp at Ghayl bin Yumayn

with tall houses either side

taken from the elevated site of the castle (now destroyed) at Alamut

From the top of the mast many thick ropes hang and behind him a large striped sail hangs from a sail yard