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View of a member of ... Type:unstretched canvasView of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through Al Dhafra sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Dhibi well to Al Batin sands. One of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, rides his camel across a flat area followed by a baggage camel on a lead. A vast area of rolling dunes spreads out into the far distance behind. Due to the nature

Two of Wilfred Thesiger's Bayt Kathir Bedouin guides kneel in the sand facing forward

View of locals walking through a street on market day in the city of Sabya

men lead caravans of camels through the water

View of Jahili Fort at Al Ain

A crowd of fishermen gather in the sand around a beached boat

Two men walk across an open area of grass in the right foreground

Seven people kneel close together in the sand

He is sitting cross-legged

Resting on the sand in front of them is a woven mat piled high with meat

In the background sits a vast expanse of bare sand

In the distance a second grove of date palms rises above a further dune

Behind them large palm trees grow in the sand on either side of the gravel bed