View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Iran

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... IranView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through Al Batin sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Al Dhafra sands to Liwa oasis. A member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, herds a group of loaded camels up a dune. The man is carrying a rifle and a camel stick on his shoulder. In the background is a large salt flat (sabkha) encircled by high

The baby is Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan

In the background sand dunes stretching into the distance

The peregrine faces towards the left

View of the round thatched huts

Sadr was one of two Sa'ar tribesmen who guided Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party from Manwakh to 'Ayn al Hasy well

In the distance a steep cliff rises to a high plateau that overlooks the wadi

View of Sabya

an oarsman rows standing up in the middle of the boat

A river at Fughmah with mountains in the background

In the first row Musallim bin Tafl

View of people at a suq (market) in the city of Lawdar in Abyan Governorate

the sisters of Amara bin Thuqub and Sabaiti bin Lazim