Standing portrait of Wilfred Thesiger ... Size:large

Standing portrait of Wilfred Thesiger ... Size:largeStanding portrait of Wilfred Thesiger wearing Arab dress in Dubai. Wilfred Thesiger stands on the rooftop terrace of a house in Dubai, turned towards the left. He leans on the balcony railing, which is made of plaster and carved wood. He wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt and suspenders over his light coloured thobe (shirt) and a ghutra (headscarf) topped with an 'agal (head rope). In the distance behind him wind towers top the roofs of

Wilfred Thesiger's party taking a rest in As Saruq sands north of Liwa oasis during their journey to Abu Dhabi

west of the Umm as Samim quicksands

Portrait of men at a suq (market) in the city of Ad Dali'

View of boats in the harbour at Zanzibar City

a tribesman of the Bayt Mbarik lineage of Rashid Bedouin and a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party

View of tents at an encampment in the Qandil range of mountains

He is looking out across a vast rocky mountain range

at Habarut [Habrut] wells

holds his hand above his face to block the sun

on which many men stand or crouch

In the near distance an Arab man stands next to a couched camel

dancing a war dance