View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Type:unstretched canvas

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Type:unstretched canvasView of Wilfred Thesiger's party travelling in the Al Khatam sands south of Al Ain, on their journey towards Al Humrah sands. In the foreground a few tufts of vegetation grow on the side of a sand dune rippled by the wind. In the left distance beyond, three of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions ride camels beside a far low dune. On the right the curved crests of two nearer dunes rise up above the lower sands surrounding them. A few tall trees grow

the ruler of Abu Dhabi

Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan stands at the far left

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the desert near Ramlat Anas

In the foreground two children sit at the front of a two-wheeled cart behind pulled across the sand into shallow water by a donkey

In the far background the ocean spreads out flat and calm to the far horizon

Behind the saluki Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (far left) rides at the head of a line of falconers and a young boy riding camels

Further behind large multi-storey buildings line the square

the highest sand dunes in the desert of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

sitting on the ground

It the far distance a high mountain rises above the plain

with his wife and other British Legation staff arriving at the palace residence (Gibbi) of the Emperor Menelik

View of people walking down a crowded street in Kuwait City