View of sailors changing the ... Jacques-Philippe Potteau

View of sailors changing the ... Jacques-Philippe PotteauView of sailors changing the sail on a dhow (sailboat) travelling through the Persian Gulf from Dubai to Bahrain Island. Three sailors perch on a wooden yard high above the deck, untying a sail from the yard. In the central foreground, one man stands on the deck in front of the sail, tugging at a sail rope attached to the yard. Behind them the dhow's mast rises high above them. This image was taken during Wilfred Thesiger's May 18 28, 1948 journey by

In the foreground a family of Sahul Bedouin sit together in a line

Two small trees grow below the dune

outside Qasr Al Hosn fort in Abu Dhabi

a large pile of stones

Beside them a man in a T-shirt and wraparound skirt walks past

a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin and a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party

some with wind towers (barjeel)

In the centre right a man in a dark ghutra and thobe holds onto the arm of another man in a light coloured thobe

which hangs down over his thobe (shirt) on one side

On the right a large tree grows

In the far right distance a further settlement of tents sits among tall trees and low sand dunes

In the foreground a small dhow is moored along the side of the kotia