Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger ... India

Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger ... IndiaGroup portrait of Wilfred Thesiger with the four members of his travelling party who accompanied him on his first crossing of the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter). Mabkhaut bin Arbain, a tribesman of the Bayt Gidad lineage of Bayt Kathir Bedouin, sits on the far left. Musallim bin Tafl, also of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin, sits second from the left. Wilfred Thesiger sits at the centre. Muhammad al Auf, a tribesman of the Bayt Mbarik lineage of Rashid

In the distance beyond two Bedouin men in Wilfred Thesiger's party walk with their camels across an area of mostly flat sand

possibly at Al Jiza well

His long hair hangs down to his shoulders beneath a dark coloured headscarf

which are drinking from a circular water trough

View of villagers with goats at a mountain settlement in the region north of the city of Ad Dali' in Ad Dali' Governorate

sitting on rocks on Mount Halgord

Salim bin Amr

Portrait of a boy from the Khawlan Bedouin tribe at Suq 'Ayban market under Jabal Fayfa

In the foreground three of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions follow tracks up the side of a dune

The man is holding a rifled

Two younger boys are standing behind the two older boys in front

Muhammad al Auf sits in the sand