View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Pakistan

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... PakistanView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a well in Al Batin sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Al Dhafra sands to Liwa oasis. Three of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, tribesmen of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, dig out a well while three camels wait expectantly nearby. 'Amair bin 'Omar crouches in the well at the far left. Beside him a man (Salim bin Kabina?) bends over, reaching out

Behind the men a few camels gather waiting for water

After this meeting Salim bin Kabina joined Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party

and the (the mountain) Jebel Hafit visible in the distance

Group portrait of political officers who were training for a commission in the Sudan Defence Force with the Cheshire Regiment

Two of the men are on a trunk

Dhows are on the water

also with its bow pointing towards the right

Wilfred Thesiger first met this woman and her three children at Habarut wells in January 1946

standing in front of a building

Beside him a second man perches on the bow of the boat

In the foreground a large compound of 'arish huts

In the far background jagged walls of limestone rise into a high ridge