View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Alfred Maudslay

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Alfred MaudslayView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions watering camels at a well near Sharjah city during the party's journey from Jabal Sumeini to Sharjah. A number of men and camels crowd around a well. Above the well is a wooden frame made from long branches, and below the opening is reenforced with concrete or rammed earth. Salim bin Ghabaisha, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, stands second from the right, leaning one of the

View of a ruined watchtower on the shore in the town of Ras Al Khaimah

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling saddling camels during the party's journey from Manwakh well to B'ir Tamis well

Tufts of qassis (sedge) and other vegetation dot the rolling surface of a large sand dune

The 13th Dalai Lama spent much of his time in this place

sitting on rocks on Mount Halgord

on the upper deck of the Nile steamer Kereri

some miles east of Santa Fe

View of members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party descending a sand dune in the desert of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

its bow pointing to the right

riding camels in the vicinity of the Ramlat Unayq

View of men in boats

taken during Wilfred Thesiger's journey from Al Hofuf to Ar Rumhiya wells