Members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Jacques-Philippe Potteau

Members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Jacques-Philippe PotteauMembers of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party standing with Bedouin at Tawi Harian well in the Sharqiyah Sands. On the left a woman in a dark abaya walks past the well. At the centre two children sit in front of the well. Salim bin Kabina, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, stands in front of the left side of the well, leaning on the arm of the frame erected around the well. Another man stands on the right side of the well. At

The man's camel is grazing on a bush

Merchandise is stacked up in piles along both sides of the aisle and a shade canopy hangs above the aisle

Men and boys at a well in a village in the lower Wadi Damad region

An Arab man with a thick dark beard sits on a pale coloured camel

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party riding camels across a sabkha

In the distance high jagged limestone cliffs rise above a flat dotted with sparse vegetation

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party watering camels at Matki well in the Mughshin Oasis

In the far right background

A number of camels crowd together in the shade of the tree

another two men hold the sail in their arms

and here and there smaller tufts of vegetation grow scattered across the dune

and later accompanied Wilfred Thesiger on all his journeys in the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter)