View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Afghanistan

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... AfghanistanView of Wilfred Thesiger's party at a well south west of Al Ain during their journey from Al Ain to Liwa oasis. In the near distance a number of camels crowd in front of two men at the centre, one of whom is holding a leather water bucket. A few men wait close by, two standing and a third seated at the centre, while the camels are watered. The man on the far right wears only a wraparound skirt and has a number of items of clothing spread out in the

He is wearing a cartridge belt over a white thobe (shirt)

with whom Wilfred Thesiger and his Bedouin companions stayed during their first crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) in December 1946

is situated on the edge of a high rocky mesa and is not liable to sand burial

Portrait of two boys of the Humum Bedouin at Ghayl bin Yamayn

The sand beneath the camel is entirely bare of any vegetation

one of whom is carrying a child

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party travelling from Khawr bin 'Atarit well in the Ghanim Sands to the Ramlat al Ghafah

In the foreground four Sahul Bedouin boys relax together in sand littered with camel droppings

a patterned headscarf

The ground surrounding the hill is carpeted with sparse grass and tufts of vegetation

Prayer flags on top of buildings

sloping dunes