View of bushes growing on ... Special Orders

View of bushes growing on ... Special OrdersView of bushes growing on a flat in the Al Ghamid tribal region between the villages of Al Makhwah and Thurayban. In the distance a ridge of high mountains rises in the background. 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.

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party walking through a palm grove cultivated by local villagers in Liwa oasis

Erzek and Merzik

In the background low stone buildings line the street

stretching below a vast cloudless sky

In the foreground a large plant grows in a patch of bare sand

and tower parapet is decorated with square blocks atop its outer wall

Seated portrait of a tribesman of the Manasir Bedouin in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain

belonging to Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party

A river at Fughmah with mountains in the background

Wilfred Thesiger is reaching into the foreground

taken from the elevated site of the castle (now destroyed) at Alamut

which is dotted with salt bushes