Seated portrait of three of ... George Dixon Aked

Seated portrait of three of ... George Dixon AkedSeated portrait of three of Wilfred Thesiger's sailing companions in camp on one of the Abu Dhabi islands. Three men kneel in the sand in a line beside a rolled sleeping mattress. All three men wear ghutra (headscarves) and thobe (ankle length shirts). In the bushes behind them cooking pots and plates dry in the sun. This image was taken during Wilfred Thesiger's week and a half long sailing trip around the Abu Dhabi Islands with Sheikh Hazaa bin

holding a rifle across his lap

View of camels belonging to Wilfred Thesiger's party watering at a falaj (irrigation channel) at the southern end of Jabal Hafit

Tea house in a country town on the road between Chengtu and Chungking

Distant view of a Bedouin man standing amongst vegetation on a vast plain near Wadi Qinab

The entrance to the hut on the right is covered with a layer of adobe

while on the left large dhows (sailboats) sit on the beach and in the shallow water of Sharjah Creek

In the near distance sits a cluster of one and two storey buildings built from adobe bricks topped with parallel lines of raqf (slate) tiles

the tallest of the group)

Nearby a woman stands wearing a tall woven straw hat

A large group of Bedouin men sit in a circle in front of a cave in a rock hillside

In the foreground an Arab man wearing a thobe (long shirt) and ghutra (headscarf) stands on the far left of a rocky slope

At the bow of the ship one man perches on the boom behind the sail