View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:stretched canvas

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:stretched canvasView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking near the village of Ash Shuqaiq. Men and camels travel across a plain. Some trees in the background. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.

In the far distance trees grow on the dry

with several rolled-up reed mats prominent in the foreground

View of a brick kiln near Azair on the River Tigris

Portrait of a man (named Amair)

High mountains rise in the background

Portrait of a young Bedouin man with a camel caravan outside the city of Al Mukalla

In the background a number of men and women walk through the market

On the left pieces of meat are piled on a piece of cloth

and his extended family in the Ramlat ar Rabbad for a few days during their first crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) in December 1946

In the far distance a sheer faced rock mountain (likely Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit]) sits below the horizon

Huts made from palm material in Baydayn village in Wadi Hali

In the far distance scattered salt bushes grow on the far edge of the plain