View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:stretched canvas

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:stretched canvasView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party crossing the gravel plain of Al Jaladah in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.

looking towards the high rock cliffs of Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit]

a Bani Yas settlement in the desert sands of Liwa oasis

Ornamental stonework decorates the face of a tall stone building in the foreground

On the shore behind it a large

Portrait of sailors on the deck of a dhow (sailboat) in Dubai Creek

Group portrait of three officials

The older man on the right wears a bisht (robe) over his thobe and also has a khanjar in a scabbard on a belt around his waist

In the background young date palms

In the far distance a line of low hills rises behind the buildings

View of people with six laden camels crossing the desert plain of the Dasht-i Lut ('Desert of Lot')

On the left behind the men camels are couched in the sand

Al Dhafra and Baynunah sands in November and December 1948