View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Africa 2

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Africa 2View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands). In the foreground members of Wilfred Thesiger's party walk with their grazing camels through vegetation growing in the sands. In the distance beyond trees and bushes grow amongst low sand dunes. 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.

Portrait of a man and an older boy belonging to a Manahil Bedouin raiding party that Wilfred Thesiger met at Huliyah well

A man climbs a rope up the face of the tower towards an opening above him

ride camels across a softly ridged dune

The fort has a defensive trench surrounding the fort and four round corner watchtowers

near the lapis lazuli mines at Sar-i-Sang

Portrait of a middle-aged man of the Bin Maaruf lineage of Sa'ar Bedouin in the Raydat as Say'ar

Portrait of a Jewish boy standing in a crowd at the Suq al Khamis [Thursday market] in the town of Najran

and his two children

in the Western Desert

a sheikh of the Junuba

A pair of women stand behind two women seated on the ground

An older man with a bushy grey beard kneels in soft sand facing forward