View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Tibet

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... TibetView of Wilfred Thesiger's party at a well in the plains below Hamrat ad Duru, during the party's journey from Masruq well to Al Hubi village. Members of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling party sit around a well opening. One member of the party is crouched inside the opening of the well, and behind him Alaiwa bin Lutaiya (right), a tribesman of the Marakhin lineage of Duru Bedouin, stands watching the others with his hands on his hips. Huaishil, a

crouches in the foreground

rope and other items lie on the sand around them and in the boat

a type of wild goat) horns

He wears a thobe (long shirt) and ghutra (headscarf)

In the foreground a young man stands in a patch of sunlight in front of a market stall

in Ras Al Khaimah Emirate

into which a tuft of feathers has been stuffed into its barrel

with a large bronze cauldron in the foreground

a tribesman of the Bayt Mbarik lineage of Rashid Bedouin

This portrait was taken by Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling companion

View of mountains

On the left the peregrine stands with its wings spread wide and its talons clasped on the head or neck of the bustard