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

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:unstretched canvasView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through Al Dhafra sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Dhibi well to Al Batin sands. Two of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, tribesmen of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, ride their mounts across a flat area between dunes. The nearer man holds a camel stick in his hand. Behind each man's mount baggage camels follow on leads. In the background a

Both men ride camels followed by baggage camels on leads

He is cradling a bag

In the far distance softly rolling dunes rise above the grove and stretch along the horizon

and the Sandia mountains visible in the distance

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting on the Aradh escarpment in the desert of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

holding a shield

The sand dune is dotted with vegetation

Full length standing portrait of an older man of the Bin Maaruf lineage of the Sa'ar Bedouin at Manwakh well

In the background is a large tree

View of one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin guides beside a tumulus burial mound in a wadi near Mudayy

The camel wears a camel udder bag suspended from a harness over her haunches

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