View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... India

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... IndiaView of Wilfred Thesiger's party in Al Humrah sands during their journey to Umm az Zumul. In the foreground a large abal (Calligonum comosum) grows in the sand. In the far distance two of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions trek across an expanse of sand, heading towards a vast white sabkha (salt flat) lying beyond the dunes. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were

Wilfred Thesiger's party making camp

Portrait of an elderly man with a young child

In the foreground on the left a man walks past a tent made of woven mats

He wears a waistcoat over his thobe (shirt) and a thick black 'agal (head rope) over his ghutra (headscarf)

Two of the men wear thobe (long shirts)

dotted by a few clumps of scattered small vegetation

View of a man walking along a path

A man wearing a light-coloured ghutra (headscarf) and a dark thobe (long shirt) walks across a rocky flat plain dotted with tall leafless bushes

View of a mosque with a tall minaret in the city of Seiyun

who quickly made me feel at home

In the far distance dhows and two storey buildings line the shores of Dubai Creek

On the right a few men walk through camp