View of Wilfred Thesiger's sailing ... Tibet

View of Wilfred Thesiger's sailing ... TibetView of Wilfred Thesiger's sailing companions aboard a dhow (sailboat) in the Abu Dhabi islands. A number of men and boys rest on the deck of a sailing boat. At the centre a man sits next to an array of rigging. Beside him, on the far right, Sheikh Hazaa bin Sultan Al Nahyan sits against the side of the boat. He covers his mouth and nose with his hand. He is wearing a white headscarf topped with a thick black 'agal (head rope), a waistcoat, and a

with cultivated fields in the foreground

In the near distance four boys stand in the middle of a field

They see to be bowing in greeting or farewell

In the background a man sits alongside the dhow

He wears a ghutra (headscarf) on his head and has a khanjar (dagger) on a belt over his thobe (long shirt)

sit in the centre of the town

In the near central distance three Arab men relax in the sand under a tree

and marked by long shadows cast by Salim bin Kabina and his footprints

He wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt over his thobe (shirt) and wears a plain headscarf

watching them work

In the left foreground a clutch of trees grow on the dune

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party standing at the bottom of a steep conglomerate cliff in the Wadi Andhur