View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Sue Johnson

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Sue JohnsonView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through Al Batin sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Al Dhafra sands to Liwa oasis. Three members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, tribesmen of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, ride across small flat plain (sabkha) dotted with sparse tufts of vegetation. Baggage camels follow along behind the men's mounts. Wind rippled dunes rise in the left

A high watchtower rises above the city wall

they are both preparing for the priesthood

A large expanse of sand sits in the foreground

View of tall houses at Saiwun in the Hadhramaut

a bare dune slope rises in ridges to the right

A tomb in the town of Al Qatan

with several stone structures (used as goat and sheep pens) visible in the foreground

In the foreground a woman and child sit at the bow of a covered abra

wearing a headdress and neck ornament of beads

flat-roofed square mosque with a walled terrace and arched entranceways sits in the foreground

standing against the wall of a ruined fort in the cliffs above Andhur spring

Behind them a small rowboats bobs in the sea