View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:unstretched canvas

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:unstretched canvasView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) during the party's journey from Jaladah plain to Bani Ma'arid sands. In the foreground a man stands with the party's camels. In the background overhead clouds cast dark shadows over the dunes, which rise in the distance. 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

which he was collecting

In the background large dhows (sailboats) rest on the beach

Members of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling party sit around a well opening

View of two dhows (sailboats) resting in shallow water on the shoreline of Kuwait City

have been planted in rows

Portrait of a Bedouin boy in the Jabal Qara mountains

View of a sand dune and a date palm grove in Liwa oasis

' The wooden structures on either side of the carreta are animal pens with storage platforms and drying racks

with a man standing in front of the building

retainers of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

In the left distance a large enclave of 'arish huts and enclosures made from palm fronds sit in the sand

In the near distance two groups of camels are couched in the centre and left background in front of a low dune ridge