Seated profile portrait of Muhammad ... Size:small

Seated profile portrait of Muhammad ... Size:smallSeated profile portrait of Muhammad, a sheikh of the Rashid Bedouin, in his encampment in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands near Bir al Tawil. Muhammad, an elderly man with a long white beard, is kneeling in the sand facing to the left. In the background there is a small pile of sticks. Wilfred Thesiger and his Bedouin companions stayed with Muhammad and his sons during Wilfred Thesiger's first crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) in December 1946.

in the city of Seiyun

Wilfred Thesiger kneels on the right holding a camel stick across his lap

A middle-aged tribesman of the Duru Bedouin with a long thick beard kneels in the sand on the left

in front of a tree (only the head and neck of the camel are inside the frame)

Boats moored on the Kiso River at Gifu

On the right a man stands nearby in the sand

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the desert of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

View of an Utaybah Bedouin family with their sheep at Al Qaiyah well

with Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in the foreground

Interior view of the mudhif (guest house) belonging to Ali ibn Dibkal of the Al Juaibar tribe

Behind them a crowd of men sit beneath a large dhow beached on wooden piles at the side of Dubai Creek

In the foreground donkey drinks from a trough at an open air market