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View of a member of ... Size:largeView of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking across dunes in Al Khatam or Al Humrah sands south of Al Ain. On the far left a Bedouin man (likely Muhammad bin Al Jabari, a tribesman of the Awamir Bedouin), leads two camels across an expanse of sand dotted with scattered vegetation, heading towards the right. In the background rolling sand dunes rise along the horizon below a cloudless sky. Due to the nature of these images, prints

who was Thesiger's Somali headman on the expedition

Portrait of a man and a young boy of the Sa'ar Bedouin sitting in front of a cave in the Raydat as Say'ar

View from a high dune looking down on Wilfred Thesiger's party in the Ghanim Sands

sit below the tall round corner tower of Al Fahidi Fort

View of two of Wilfred Thesiger's canoe-boys (named Hasan bin Manati and Sabaiti bin Lazim)

In the foreground waves of secondary dunes ripple the surface of a sand dune dotted with a few scattered tufts of vegetation

Side view of three members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party companions climb up the slope of a sand dune in Liwa oasis

View of the monolithic rock-hewn church of Emanuel at Lalibela

east of Sabya

Kusho Palhese

Further behind a low expanse of sand rises into a dune in the far right distance

a higher dune juts out above