View of Sheikh Saqr bin ... Portraits of notable people

View of Sheikh Saqr bin ... Portraits of notable peopleView of Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammed Al Qasimi's fort in the town of Ras Al Khaimah. In the foreground a man and a group of children walk across a gravel plain towards the foreground where a palm grows on a large sand flat. In the distance beyond Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammed Al Qasimi's fort towers high above the sand flat, while further beyond the Ru'us Al Jibal mountains rise in the far distance. On the far left 'arish huts and enclosures made from palm

Young tamarisk trees grow in the salt pan

In the right foreground one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling companions sits in the shade beside a large platter of dates

next to the mast

A line of footprints marks the sand in the foreground

Profile portrait of a man of the Sa'ar Bedouin sitting in front of a cave in the Raydat as Say'ar

The watchtower is built from stone and is situated on a rocky island in the centre of the image

View of a boy squatting beside a large carved wooden memorial figure

View of multi-storeyed buildings built from rammed earth in the town of Dhahran in Qahtan tribal territory

One of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions attends to baggage loaded on a couched camel at the right

standing with a tethered camel

A middle-aged man with a moustache and stubbly beard stands turned slightly to the right

hauling on a well rope