View of an abra (ferry ... Africa

View of an abra (ferry ... AfricaView of an abra (ferry boat) preparing to dock at the side of Dubai Creek. In the right foreground an abra (ferry) loaded with passengers rows towards the creek side. Two thick ropes run from the shore in front of the boat out to dhows (sailboats) moored in the creek behind. On the right many houses, some with wind towers (barjeel), sit along the creek. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that

The four men sit in a circle on loose rocks under a limestone overhang

Seated portrait of an Arab man

a representative of the Imam of Oman

Here the use of skin or fibre aprons (olemo)

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding a camel across a sand flat dotted with scattered vegetation in the Ramlat as Sahmah

Behind them many people rest in the sand

In the foreground a trader carries a load of wood on his back

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through Al Batin sands near Liwa during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

The younger boy standing at the centre pulls down on his plaid cloth

wearing a hat)

its head rope tied to a bush behind the man

pause in the midst of a vast and barren plain strewn with rocks