View from the guest house ... Frame:white

View from the guest house ... Frame:whiteView from the guest house at Abha over other buildings towards the pass to the Tihamah. 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.

among papyrus stalks in a swamp

ride camels across a vast expanse of low rolling sand dunes dotted with bushes

leaning against a mud wall at Al Muwaiji Fort in Al Ain

View of chortens at the monastery at Hemis

Two men in Wilfred Thesiger's camp

Behind him camping gear lies in the sand in the background

Adobe and stone buildings in the city of Abha sit on the far side of the field

View of dhows (sailboats) moored a below a rock outcrop during Wilfred Thesiger's trip through the Abu Dhabi islands with Sheikh Hazaa bin Sultan Al Nahyan and his retainers

a coffee-pot sit on the fire in front of them

rocky riverbed

View of dunes in Al Batin sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

In the foreground Muslim graves marked by large gravestones lies in front of two small tombs with bell-shaped roofs