View of Wilfred Thesiger's sailing ... George Dixon Aked

View of Wilfred Thesiger's sailing ... George Dixon AkedView of Wilfred Thesiger's sailing companions aboard a dhow (sailboat) in the Abu Dhabi islands. In the foreground at the far right a man sits on deck. Behind him a man climbs up from below deck. At the centre a group of men sit to one side of the boat's mast. The man sitting next to a large barrel holds a small porcelain cup. The man across from him holds a tea or coffee pot in his left hand, and further along a number of men sit along the ship's

In the background a rocky hill rises in the distance

Portrait of a teenaged boy of the Bani Malik tribe in the Bani Malik Mountains

View of tower houses built of rammed earth in the town of Dhahran

near Aouzou

Shops line both sides of the street and shopkeepers sit on benches in front of their shops

In the foreground the river bed is layered with fine sand

while women and a child sit inside the left section

View of members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party descending a sand dune in the desert of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

with a palm tree prominent and a man in the foreground

Further along

Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger (left) and Frank Steele (right)

A second man stands in a small opening in the door