Three-quarter length seated portrait of ... Portraits of notable people

Three-quarter length seated portrait of ... Portraits of notable peopleThree quarter length seated portrait of Captain Haji Mansur on his dhow (sailboat) in the Persian Gulf near Bahrain. Haji Mansur, the nakhoda or captain of the dhow on which Wilfred Thesiger travelled from Dubai to Bahrain Island, sits on a platform at the bow of the boat. He is wearing a T shirt and a wraparound skirt and has a taqiyah cap on his head. Behind him a wooden yard has been lashed to the bow of the dhow, and a line of chain runs across

a patterned loincloth

He wears a light coloured thobe (long shirt) and a patterned headscarf (ghutra)

holding his hand out over the rope

The wide sandy troughs between the parallel chains are bare except for a few sparse tufts of vegetation

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party trekking through the Al Qafa' or As Saruq region north of Liwa oasis

with round houses on a hillside in the distance

Portrait of a member of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party riding a camel in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain

View of the central dome of the Masjid-i Jami mosque ('Friday Mosque') at Isfahan

The peregrine holds its wings out over the MacQueen's Bustard to maintain its balance

The women were on their way to Dubai from Al Ain

In the near distance tufts of vegetation grow in sand rippled by small waves of secondary dunes

Portrait of a young boy of the Utaybah Bedouin standing with a flock of black and white sheep at Al Qaiyah well