View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:black

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:blackView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party descending a dune in the 'Uruq ash Shaybah sands of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). 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 Museum.

Behind them three dhows are moored in shallow water close to shore

gilt copper pagoda roofs of the tombs of past Dalai Lamas

Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions lead pairs of camels through an area of softly rolling dunes

stands with its wings spread wide

In the background clumps of vegetation grow across a vast expanse of flat sand

In the far distance high mountains rise along the far edge of the plain

Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin party riding camels in a line across a flat plain during their journey from Wadi Qinab to Huliyah well

Two Birds by Sue Johnson 2011

On the left another man leads a camel further up the slope

holding spears and ambatch parrying shields at a funeral dance near Malakal

Portrait of a boy at the market at Umm Al Khashab

In the distant background the bay is visible behind the masts of the dhow