Portrait of Hamad bin Saadna ... Iran

Portrait of Hamad bin Saadna ... IranPortrait of Hamad bin Saadna (known by Wilfred Thesiger as Hamad bin Hanna) at a Rashid encampment in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands. Hamad bin Saadna, a tribesman of the Bayt Hanna lineage of Rashid Bedouin, is kneeling in the sand at the encampment of Muhammad, a sheikh of the Rashid Bedouin. He is surrounded by blankets and mats. To his left another man is sitting, though only the knees of this person are visible in the image. In the far background two

View of a village near Lawdar in Abyan Governorate

The family is sitting around a fire

Portrait of a boy of the Qara tribe kneeling in sand at a pool in the Wadi Darbat

at a well near Sharjah city during the party's journey from Jabal Sumeini to Sharjah

View of Wilfred Thesiger's men and their camels resting under trees in the country between the village of Harub and the city of Sabya

working a loom

Nechung monastery at the dance held early in the Tibetan New Year when the oracle foretells coming events as a preliminary to the start of the Great Prayer the following day

In the centre left foreground a man in a waistcoat and thobe (long shirt)

Junk sails at I-ch'ang on the Yangtze River

View of a narrow street in Fez

On the right a small rowboat is tied alongside

In the background the crest of the dune continues into the far distance