View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Frame:white

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Frame:whiteView of Wilfred Thesiger's party travelling to the Bani Yas settlement of Jayf in Liwa oasis. Two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, tribesmen of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, walk their camels across a large expanse of sand towards the distant settlement of Jayf. The settlement is made up of small square huts (locally known as 'arish) that have been built atop two dune ridges. The huts are made from palm fronds, and most have

He is wearing a T-shirt and a wraparound skirt and has a taqiyah cap on his head

A tomb in the town of Al Qatan

Beyond the depression is a large salt flat (sabkha)

Behind them bare sand stretches into the far distance

with Lake Rudolf and mountains in the distance

View of a vast barren gravel plain in the Al Ghamid tribal region between the villages of Al Makhwah and Thurayban

View of a young man and a boy standing amidst several wooden boats

In the background is a sand flat bare of vegetation

A man wearing a thobe (long shirt) and ghutra (headscarf) stands on a large rock in the right foreground

held with an 'agal (head rope)

View of locals at a suq (market) in the city of Sharjah

Al Dhafra and Baynunah sands in November and December 1948