View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Iraq

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... IraqView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through Al Dhafra sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Dhibi well to Al Batin sands. Two of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, tribesmen of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, ride their mounts across the crest of low dune. Behind each man's mount baggage camels follow on leads. The sand in the foreground is marked with small ripples and ridges. In

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

at Karungu in south Nyanza

its wings folded along its chest

Tufts of vegetation grow across the sands into the far distance

Large shadow cast in the bottom right hand corner of the image

with a building and two chortens in the foreground

View of the stern of a baghala (large boat

View of a cluster of joined buildings near Baiman in the region between the city of Abha and the village of 'Ar'arah

wearing a turban and shorts)

together with two villages of [

and in the background a large white sail billows out with the wind

In the foreground water-skins are loaded onto donkeys