View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Frame:none

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Frame:noneView of Wilfred Thesiger's party resting with their camels on a sand flat in the Jiddat az Zawliyah, east of the Ramlat as Sahmah. 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.

In the distance another 'arish hut sits in the sand

Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions trek in a line across a flat expanse of wind-rippled sand

In the distance beyond ridges of rolling sand dunes continue to the far horizon

View of deciduous trees growing on the slopes of the Jabal Qara mountains

In the left foreground a falconer wearing a cap and a light coloured thobe (long shirt) topped with a cartridge belt and leather suspenders stands in a patch of soft sand holding a peregrine falcon

View of a village on the Chahla River

ride along the crest of a high dune towards a distant expanse of dunes

and further behind stone houses can be seen lining the shore

each holding a rifle in their right hand

possibly a palace

more dhows in are moored in the calm

next to a pot and other cooking accessories