View of one of Wilfred ... Size:large

View of one of Wilfred ... Size:largeView of one of Wilfred Thesiger's guides standing on a rocky valley slope in Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] mountain. A man wearing a thobe (long shirt) and ghutra (headscarf) stands on a large rock in the right foreground. He holds a rifle in his left hand. A few bushes grow among the large rocks surrounding him. In the background the far slope of the valley rises into high limestone peaks in the distance. Wilfred Thesiger spent a week on Jebel Hafeet

with the smaller party of two Bedouin men with three camels in the near distance and a second larger group travelling in the far distance

with Manwakh well and mountains in the distance

View of Jabal Harfa mountain near the village of Ash Shaykh

In the foreground a peregrine falcon perches facing forward on a carved wooden wakir (block)

sits in the left background

The water surrounding them is clear and calm

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party watering at a river in the Wadi Qana during their journey towards the village of Makha'il

Sheikh Mubarak bin Mohammed Al Nahyan

View of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling party resting in a rocky wadi bed below Ayun spring

Many people stand by a well with camels

Portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha and Thesiger

tethered to the back of the men's mounts