View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Size:small

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Size:smallView of Wilfred Thesiger's party travelling in Al Khatam or Al Humrah sands south of Al Ain. In the left foreground a bare bush sticks out of the sand. In the near right distance a man walks along with three camels, one of which is eating from a bush. Further beyond three more of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling companions trek across rolling sands, heading towards low rolling downs dotted with vegetation in the background. In the far distance

wearing a large dagger in the scabbard across his waist

View of the snow-covered Chilinji Pass

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party travelling in the Al Khatam sands south of Al Ain

On the left two donkeys graze beside a tree

A man with a long grey beard sits in the sand

the Minister of Agriculture

and sustained intimate relations to them

In the background large bushes grow across a vast flat plain

Men crowd the deck of the dhow

retainers of Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan

a young Samburu man

Dhows on the water