View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Images of Sheikh Zayed

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Images of Sheikh ZayedView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party camping in the shade of two trees during their journey from the Ramlat Unayq, north of Al Ain Buraimi oasis, to Jabal Sumeini. On the left a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party loads one of two camels couched in the shade of a tall tree. Pots, a rifle and blankets are scattered on the ground under the tree. On the right, behind another tree, a few more camels rest in the shade. In the background a

He wears a floral ghutra (headscarf) with a very thick agal (head rope) and holds a rifle in a protective leather sleeve

when Wilfred Thesiger stayed at Al Muwaiji fort in Al Ain as a guest of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

In the far left background another member of the party stands beside a bare bush

In the background other members of the party rest in the sand

employed as an interpreter of Dutch and English

Nearby piles of coral

likely built of coral and with a large barjeel on its roof

On the left

taken in 1949

Portrait of six trained falcons and two salukis belonging to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party resting in the sands surrounding Al Ain

Date palms and other trees grow in the building's inner courtyard

On the left a man wades through shallow water