View of sailors preparing to ... Frame:black

View of sailors preparing to ... Frame:blackView of sailors preparing to hoist sails on a dhow (sailboat) in the Persian Gulf near Dubai. In the far right foreground a man stands next to a large rope pulley. In the central foreground a lifeboat filled with sails and rigging sits on the deck of a dhow. Behind the raft a group of sailors stand in two lines beneath the dhow's main yard. One man stands behind them on the left, pulling on a rope. Further beyond another man stands on the main yard

Two of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions

Seated portrait of a boy of the Sahul Bedouin resting in front of a tent at one of the Rumah wells

The market at Abha in front of Al Shada Palace

On the left one man squats on the ground

Full length portrait of a boy of the Sa'ar Bedouin standing in front of Manwakh well

Portrait of two girls

standing in the party's hunting camp in the sands near Al Ain

and further beyond trees grow in the far background

Behind her head has been stretched another white silk cloth

View of scattered trees

In the central foreground four of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions ride their camels across a patch of bare sand sand dotted with a few small sprigs of vegetation

The falcon perches on the mangalah facing forward