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

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Size:mediumView of Wilfred Thesiger's party at a well in the plains below Hamrat ad Duru, during the party's journey from Masruq well to Al Hubi village. Members of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling party gather around a well opening. On the right one man is crouched in the well digging out sand. Behind him on the right Alaiwa bin Lutaiya (right), a tribesman of the Marakhin lineage of Duru Bedouin, stands watching with his hands on his hips. To the left of

beyond which a steep

single-storey building

a woven neck rope and has a thick black head rope

Portrait of a man and two boys from one of the Qara tribes in the Jabal Qara mountains

looking northwards from Tanta (near Magdala)

View of a line of Wilfred Thesiger's Nuer porters trekking through waterlogged terrain

Higher mountains to the left and in the background

View of a few people walking through a public square in the city of Tarim

Wilfred Thesiger is reaching into the foreground

Portrait of two men (named Moussa Hamma and Muhammad Sirage)

In the central foreground Said bin Musallim

Musallim bin Al Kamam wears a ghutra (headscarf) and a thobe (long shirt) topped with a cartridge belt