View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Jacques-Philippe Potteau

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Jacques-Philippe PotteauView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through Al Dhafra sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Dhibi well to Al Batin sands. Three of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, tribesmen of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, trek in a line over the crest of a low dune. At the far left, a man waits on the crest of the dune with his camels. At the centre a man on a camel follows a third man with two

as evidenced by his blocked nostrils

and nearby a few other Wahiba Bedouin walk amongst the animals

with a man standing outside it

wearing a hat decorated with many rows of shells

Behind the boy is a cluster of typical adobe and raqf (slate) tile buildings

Distant view of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a well in Al Batin sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Al Dhafra sands to Liwa oasis

the palace of the Emir

soft volcanic tufa in which thousands of artificial caves have been dug by a preceding race

who accompanied Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party to Muwaiji

The man is a sheikh of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin

He is watching the progress of a hippo hunt taking place in a lagoon

Portrait of two young men