Standing full length portrait of ... Type:stretched canvas

Standing full length portrait of ... Type:stretched canvasStanding full length portrait of Wilfred Thesiger and his camel taken during his party's journey from the As Saruq sands to Abu Dhabi. Wilfred Thesiger stands in a large expanse of flat sand in front of the camel on which he made his second journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). He is wearing a headscarf, a long shirt (thobe), and a khanjar (dagger) in a cartridge belt around his waist. Behind him his camel is saddled and heavily loaded

In the foreground a low dune rises to the right

unloading a camel in a dry wadi

that of an ox

In the foreground a dry watercourse runs along the bottom of the ridge down to the right

He wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt over his thobe (shirt) and a plain headscarf

View of rolling hills strewn with gravel and rocks in the region surrounding the village of Sawda

and holding a rifle over his left shoulder

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party resting in the Sharqiyah Sands

A few small bushes grow on the dune slope

In the left foreground ferries are docked at a ferry boat launch on Dubai creek

View of an ornate doorway

Men stand in a line in front of a stone wall