View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:goldView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding along the eastern side of Jebel Kawr in the Wadi al 'Ayn and Wadi al 'Umayri watershed. In the foreground two men are riding along a track across a vast flat. Further beyond, a large party of riders travel towards the low ridge of Jabal Buwaydah. In the far right distance, the eastern slopes of Jebel Kawr rise high above Jabal Buwaydah. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any
a tribesman of the Wahiba Bedouin
A large salt flat (sabkha) dotted with sparse tufts of vegetation stretches from the foreground into the distance
It is saddled and wearing the traditional form of guiding harness
In the foreground traders sit on the ground beside a group of couched camels
In the foreground one of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin travelling companions (likely Musallim bin Al Kamam
In the foreground a line of tracks cross the middle of a large sloping expanse of sand
View of Wilfred Thesiger's party trekking through the As Saruq sands north of Liwa oasis during their journey to Abu Dhabi
In the background small shrubs and bushes grow in an expanse of sand
A man holding a rifle and a peregrine falcon on a mangalah (cuff) kneels in soft sand dotted with small shoots of vegetation
He also wears a headscarf (ghutra) topped with black aghal (head ropes) and a khanjar (dagger)
A middle-aged man with a moustache and stubbly beard stands turned slightly to the right
the Regent of Abyssinia (and later the Emperor Haile Selassie)
