Seated portrait of a tribesman ... Iraq

Seated portrait of a tribesman ... IraqSeated portrait of a tribesman of the Manasir Bedouin at a Manasir encampment in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. An older man with a long bushy grey beard and short hair sits in the sand with his arm resting on his knee. He wears a plain ghutra (headscarf) hanging down over his neck and a light coloured thobe (long shirt). On the left a metal bowl lies in the sand near a dry bush. In the distance beyond a number of trees grow in the sand. This image

In the distance beyond scattered vegetation grows across a vast flat plain of sand

An elderly Bedouin man with a large white beard stands in front of a white rock wall

a type of large double masted dhow (sailboat) built in Kuwait

One is holding an umbrella

In front of him a tea urn sits beside a bag in the sand while nearby a coffee urn heats on the fire

He is surrounded by sand

Thesiger's party making camp under a tree between Buraimi and Dubai

having already watered their animals there

The peregrine falcon perches on a mangalah (cuff) he holds in his hand

At the far left another camel grazes on a large bush

In the foreground a number of couched camels rest in a large square in front of Al Kathiri Palace

A small beached dhow with a single mast sits in shallow water along the shore of Manama