Wilfred Thesiger in Abu Dhabi Pakistan

Wilfred Thesiger in Abu Dhabi PakistanPortrait of Thesiger in Arab dress in the Empty Quarter of the UAE. 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.

Above the ocean the sky is empty of clouds

In the far distance the crests of far dunes sit along the horizon below a vast cloudless sky

A man climbs a rope up the face of the tower towards an opening above him

then housed in Al Fahidi Fort

Portrait of a young woman (named Matara)

Two young boys sit together in front of the group at the left

riding camels in the vicinity of the Ramlat Unayq

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party standing in country north of Al Ain/Buraimi oasis in the area between Ramlat Unayq and Jabal Sumeini

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

View of a house

which is saddled with a dark sheepskin and a burlap sack (most of the camel is outside the frame)

holding knives