Seated portrait of Salim bin ... Size:medium

Seated portrait of Salim bin ... Size:mediumSeated portrait of Salim bin Kabina, one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin guides, eating a meal during the party's journey from Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat to Furai well. Salim bin Kabina, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, crouches in the foreground, placing a morsel of food in his mouth. He wears a light coloured thobe (shirt) and a dark coloured ghutra (headscarf). In the background sand fills the distance behind him. Due to the nature

Seated portrait of Sheikh Mubarak bin Mohammed Al Nahyan kneeling in the sand next to one of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's retainers

Two Chinese-style pagodas with historical inscription pillars inside in the middle distance

gathered for a circumcision ceremony

One of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions stands nearby

while behind him a hobbled camel stands on three legs

with small wooden balconies

View of giant groundsel trees

Portrait of Thesiger in Oman

wearing a black felt hat

The boy crouches on a rocky slope holding a rifle

View of houses at Tawila

north of the Wadi Hadhramawt