View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:unstretched canvas

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:unstretched canvasView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through the Al Dhafra sands during the party's journey to Baynunah. Five laden camels walk across a depression below a long, low ridge of bare sand, heading towards the far left. On the right two of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions walk a few metres behind the camels. In the far distance beyond rolling ridges of dunes continue into the far horizon below a cloudless sky. This image was

which is made up of small huts covered in grass and mud

listing heavily to one side

A man of the Bayt Kathir preparing food at a campsite in the region between Ghayl bin Yumayn and Wadi 'Arf

the son of Huaishil

The shaven head hair styles are very youthful and would have been a fashion in the period for young women

resting in the party's hunting camp in the sands near Al Ain

View of the Bab Mansour gate in the city wall at Meknes

In the foreground a Bedouin man in Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party leads two camels into the foreground

The jewellery is very heavy with the earrings being made of gold and turquoise and the amulet made of gold

View of buildings at Shibam in the Hadhramaut

View of shelters at an ailoq (herdsmen's summer pasture camp) on the northern slopes of the Kuh-e-Baba range of mountains

The north face of the Potala Palace