Standing full length portrait of ... Arabia

Standing full length portrait of ... ArabiaStanding full length portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha, one Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, at a palm grove in Liwa oasis. In the foreground Salim bin Ghabaisha, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, stands in an expanse of sand beside a few clumps of qassis (sedge), holding a rifle over his shoulder. Salim bin Ghabaisha wears a dark ghutra (headscarf) and a cartridge belt with leather suspenders over his light coloured

and holds a camel stick

taken shortly after their circumcisions

returning from Zanzibar to its home port of Kuwait

on Shindagha beach in Dubai

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party camping in the Jabal Qara mountains

beyond the an expanse of water gently rippled by the wind

its sails tied down

possibly Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

View of buildings at a settlement

taking a bride to her new home

To the right a clump of dry bushes poke out of the sand

View of the city of Shibam in Wadi Hadhramawt