Group portrait of the four ... Size:large

Group portrait of the four ... Size:largeGroup portrait of the four members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party who accompanied him on his first crossing of the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter). Mabkhaut bin Arbain, a tribesman of the Bayt Gidad lineage of Bayt Kathir Bedouin, stands on the far left. Musallim bin Tafl, also of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin, stands second from the left. Muhammad al Auf, a tribesman of the Bayt Mbarik lineage of Rashid Bedouin, stands second from the right. Salim

towards distant dunes

The well is located at the bottom of a sink hole below the crumbling walls of the fort

lead a pack of camels towards a distant salt flat (sabkha)

Behind them a few laden camels are couched in the flat sand

wearing beaded and metal jewellery around her neck and on her arms

At the far left the bow of a dhow is visible at the edge of the frame

Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger (second from right)

View of houses at Ghayl bin Yamayn in the Hadhramawt

drawing water at Manwakh well

One of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions attends to baggage loaded on a couched camel at the right

a woman Wilfred Thesiger met at Mudayy in the Wadi 'Aydim

The tall boy on the far right is Sheikh Mubarak bin Mohammed Al Nahyan