View of the Shindagha district ... Jacques-Philippe Potteau

View of the Shindagha district ... Jacques-Philippe PotteauView of the Shindagha district from the Bur Dubai side of Dubai Creek. In the foreground 'arish huts and enclosures made from palm fronds line Dubai Creek. On the far right three people rest by the water next to a beached boat. In the far left background a square stone watchtower, the Shindagha, rises high above nearby houses in the Shindagha district. Further along on the far side of the creek one and two storey houses made of coral are built close

an Abyssinian 'Patriot' soldier

View of a group of men at a circumcision celebration firing muskets above their heads

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party (Salim bin Kabina) walking with two tethered camels in the Batin sands south of Liwa oasis

View of Mount Kenya (seen from the Teleki Valley)

Sheikh Mubarak bin Mohammed Al Nahyan

View of a crowd of locals and traders at the suq (market) in the town of Abha

A small canoe is towed behind the dhow

wearing wigs

Musallim bin Tafl

with a man sitting at the coffee hearth and other people sitting along the walls

On the left the peregrine stands with its wings spread wide and its talons clasped on the head or neck of the bustard

sitting on a chair