View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:black

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:blackView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through a valley in the mountainous region between Wadi Shaybanah and the town of Ad Dhafir. The men are walking alongside their donkeys. 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.

Behind him 'Amair bin 'Omar (centre) and Salim bin Kabina (left) follow on their camels

In the distance more bushes and trees stretch out across flat sands

Three of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions

The nearest boom flies three sails

Behind them a few men stand on the bank

On the left an Arab falconer carries a hooded falcon on a mangalah (cuff) on his arm

on the shore of Lake Tana

past two and three storey stone buildings fronted with wooden balconies

Water spouts visible on the right

a samurai and officer on the 1862 Takenouchi mission to Europe

Portrait of a peregrine falcon belonging to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party resting in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain

In the near distance a large group of camels are couched in the sand