View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Size:medium

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Size:mediumView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through in the desert during the party's journey from Shisr well to Mughshin Oasis. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.

even centuries

which consists of a chain halter

and behind him another man leads a fourth camel towards the group

The woman on the left holds a water skin in her hands

Camels stand in and along the side of the pool at Andhur spring

The sand beneath the camel is entirely bare of any vegetation

Further beyond four of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions ride camels across sand towards a few groves of date palms

A group of joined buildings sits in the near distance on the far side of terraced cultivated fields

filling the right foreground

A Truptop Lama

A crowd of onlookers watch the photographer

In the foreground a boy hauls water out of a well using ropes