View of two of Wilfred ... Portraits of notable people

View of two of Wilfred ... Portraits of notable peopleView of two of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions in sand dunes in Al Khatam sands. In the near right foreground small clumps of vegetation grow at the bottom of a large dune. In the central distance two Bedouin men stand on a sand ridge halfway up a large dune. In the distance beyond the ridge continues towards the dune's high peak in the far right distance. Small clumps of grass grow scattered across the dune. Due to the nature of these images,

Marshlands behind the Potala appear to be flooded and people can be seen walking along a narrow path

Portrait of a young man from the Humaydah tribe with two boys in the region between Suq ath Thulutha and Wadi Hali

He wears a light coloured waistcoat over his thobe (long shirt) and an embroidered headscarf tied over a white taqiyah cap

The donkey's saddle is covered with a thick sheepskin blanket

In the background clumps of vegetation grow across a vast expanse of flat sand

At the far right one of the men looks through binoculars into the left distance

In the distance more high dunes rise at the edge of the plain

Half length standing portrait of Captain Haji Mansur and one of his sailors working on a dhow (sailboat) in the Persian Gulf near Bahrain Island

The ocean surrounding the boom ripples in the wind

sits on a large camel

He is holding a rifled

In the distance beyond low rolling downs continue out to the horizon beneath a vast cloudless sky