View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Special Orders

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Special OrdersView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through the Al Dhafra sands during the party's journey to Baynunah. In the central foreground one of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions leads a laden camel across a stretch of flat sand dotted with a few bushes. In the left distance another member of the party stands with his camel atop a long, low ridge of bare sand, beyond which rolling dunes continue into the far horizon below a

Musallim bin Al Kamam (right)

Portrait of a young man of the Humum Bedouin at Ghayl bin Yamayn

He wears a plaid cloth tied like a sash over his thobe (shirt) and a checked headscarf tied with an 'agal (head rope)

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party resting in the shade of a tree in the upper Wadi al Batha' east of Qabil al Bu Said village

A high dune with a steeply sloping face rises in the foreground

In the centre a man stands on a dhow

View of stone buildings in the city of Ad Dali'

being looked over by several young men (including Amara bin Thuqub

A boy riding on a donkey

Behind them a high stone wall borders the street

holding animal skins filled with butter

Buildings at Ghayl bin Yamayn