View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:natural

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:naturalView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking in the Uruq al Awarik sands of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). 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 Rivers Museum.

Weights attached to the donkeys help to thresh the grain

The two smaller boys standing on either side of him are his slaves

Two boys sitting on a platform in a tree in the Wadi Amq

View of Ash Shuqaiq village

one man is on foot

At the centre another of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions stands holding a leather bag filled with water

Ahmed stands on a platform at the bow of the boat in shade cast by the sail above him

where the mountain Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet) rises high above the plain

the Lord Chamberlain

Further beyond a two storey building fronted with a wooden canopy lines the square

rests at the bottom of a large dune next to his camel

with people walking along a path in the foreground