View of a badan, a ... Sue Johnson

View of a badan, a ... Sue JohnsonView of a badan, a small dhow (sailboat) beached on Shindagha beach in Dubai. The badan is beached in the sand with its bow pointing towards ocean on the left. Stick like oars are tied to its gunwales. In the far right distance a cluster of 'arish huts, made from palm fronds, sit close together on the shore in front of the more substantial coral houses of the Shindagha district. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of

west of Makha'il village

Portrait of a member of the Mutayr tribe

In the distance beyond another member of the party rides across a stretch of sand towards a low sand dune

The 13th Dalai Lama spent much of his time in this place

Standing three-quarter length portrait of a herds boy of the Rashid Bedouin with a female camel in the sands near Al Ain

is holding a rifle in a leather sleeve across his lap as he rides

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party descending a dune in Al Batin sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Al Dhafra sands to Liwa oasis

Seated portrait of a Bedouin tribesman at Sheikh Zayid bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting camp in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain

In the distance beyond Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammed Al Qasimi's fort towers high above the sand flat

kneels in the sand

a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party

taken in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain