View of juniper trees growing ... Size:mediumView of juniper trees growing on the side of a gravel wadi near the village of Sawda. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.
An Arab man sits astride his camel
with whom Wilfred Thesiger and his Bedouin companions stayed during their first crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) in December 1946
1948 stay in Sharjah and Dubai
In the central foreground one of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions rides his camel up the face of the dune accompanied by Warad
View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking towards high dunes in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) during the party's journey from Jaladah plain to Bani Ma'arid sands
In the foreground a woman stands beside a hawd
In the background large bushes dot the plain behind the well
View of sailors on a dhow (sailboat) in the Persian Gulf near Dubai
In the foreground small tufts of vegetation sprout from a patch of sand where four of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions
with the minaret of a mosque in the foreground
The field is defined by a low stone wall running around the edge of the field
holding two spears over his right shoulder