View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Africa 2

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Africa 2View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking along Al 'Aradh in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). In the background rocky areas sit above the sands. 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.

A few of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling companions rest beneath the tree

Behind them on the left a saluki sits in the sand nearby three couched camels

a samurai and officer (performing the function of deputy secretary) on the 1864 Ikeda mission to France

sit high up on the slope of the dune

In the foreground a boy with a donkey walks across a sandy plain dotted two stands of trees

Above the aisle an overhead canopy casts patches of shade over the market

He wears a patterned ghutra (headscarf) tied closely around his head a dark coloured thobe (long shirt) topped with a khanjar (dagger) and cartridge belt

while the far ridge is brightened by the sun

and sand dunes in the distance

dotted with sparse points of vegetation

A baggage camel follows behind the man

some of which are crowned with wooden scaffolding