View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Size:medium

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Size:mediumView of Wilfred Thesiger's party making camp near Al Hubi village. On the left one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling companions stands beside a large tree. In the centre two men stand beside a standing camel. On the right a forth member of the party walks between two couched camels. In the distance beyond trees and low vegetation grow on a vast flat plain. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage

a tribesman of the Awamir Bedouin

The four men sit in a circle on loose rocks under a limestone overhang

In the background a few bushes grow on the flat plain that stretches uninterrupted into the far distance

Each man wears a ghutra (headscarf) and a thobe (long shirt)

He holds a skull drum and thigh bone trumpet in his hands

Portrait of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

Sheikh Hazaa bin Sultan Al Nahyan sits at the far right

and Kassimi (left of Omar

The door is set into a high gate topped with ramparts

Cutter Greyhound

View of a small dhow being launched by a group of men at Abu Dhabi

Desert landscape near the Liwa oasis