View of one of the ... Frame:gold

View of one of the ... Frame:goldView of one of the dhows (sailboats) on which Wilfred Thesiger sailed through the Abu Dhabi islands with Sheikh Hazaa bin Sultan Al Nahyan and his retainers. A dhow sails directly into the foreground. At the far end of the yard a man is perched beneath the sail. Men crowd the deck of the dhow. At the back of the dhow, an awning is covered with white cloth. On the left a small canoe is being towed behind the dhow on a short rope. This image was taken

Portrait of a moran (warrior)

Interior view of a mudhif (guest house)

returning from Zanzibar to its home port of Kuwait

This was the first time that Thesiger had worn Arab dress and he looks slightly uneasy and self-conscious

The tree's top branches grow in the shape of an inverted triangle

with a large number of hunting trophies (from the Western Nuer District) laid out and arranged for the camera

drawing water at Manwakh well

View of the snow-capped summit of Mir Samir (6

and a camel stick

past a sand bank and the many moored dhows that line the shore

A falconer wearing a thobe (long shirt) and a ghutra (headscarf) toped with a dark 'agal (head rope) sits astride a tall camel

a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin