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

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Size:largeView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking in the Uruq al Awarik sands of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). 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.

The building in the centre has open booths attached

with mountains in the distance

View of old Sabya from the Emir's palace

View of a palm tree

propped up on his right elbow

Behind the grove softly rolling dunes stretch along the horizon

heading from the far left towards the right

Another boy stands behind him and a woman sits on the ground

View of a kasbah (fortress) at Ahansal in the High Atlas range of mountains

Monks in a courtyard

In the background four more camels are being led across the top of the same dune by other men in the travelling party

View of volcanic country in the region between the cities of At Taif and Qalat Bishah