View of one of Wilfred ... Frame:gold

View of one of Wilfred ... Frame:goldView of one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions standing in front of Al Jahili fort in Al Ain. In the foreground a man in a white thobe (ankle length shirt) walks across stoney ground towards a tree. A ruined wall fills the right background. Further behind is the stepped watchtower of Al Jahili fort. In the far background the tops of three palm trees can be seen growing in the courtyard behind the fort walls. This image was taken during April 6

The man wears a khanjar (dagger) on a belt and a waistcoat over his coloured thobe (long shirt)

a 'well constructed church is prosperously maintained here with a resident Padre and his assistants

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party leading a camel through 'Uruq ash Shaybah sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

This is held over a bowl

In the Wadi ad Dhila

Behind them a few laden camels are couched in the flat sand

including laden donkeys and three men following them

Mountain landscape near Wadi 'Arf

This man is wearing a cartridge belt and leaning on a wooden post topped with a rope and pulley

The falcon's burqa (hood) lies in the sand to the right of the wakir

hauling on a well rope

On the right one of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions unloads a second couched camel