View of one of Wilfred ... Alfred Maudslay

View of one of Wilfred ... Alfred MaudslayView of one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions at a settlement in Al Ain Buraimi oasis. One of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions crouches on a low dune slope the left, alongside mud ruins and a few date palms. In the left distance is a fort and a settlement built of adobe. In the far distance a date palm grove grows behind the settlement. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred

At the centre a man in a wraparound skirt steers the ship's tiller

when all the Mission staff were in full dress in readiness for the second official visit they were to make to the Potala

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Awarik sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

sheer-sided dune on the left

which has been topped with concrete or rammed earth

The ferries

riding a camel during the party's journey from Jabal Sumeini to the port city of Sharjah

The photograph shows the south face of a carved stone stela known by archaeologists as Stela A

Muhammad bin Fadil's ghutra (headscarf) is blown back behind his shoulders by the wind and he holds a camel stick up in the air with one hand

in the lower Wadi 'Aydim

In the background a large grove of date palms grows in the sand

Four of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions lead their camels down a softly sloping dune