View of Sheikh Zayed bin ... Miscellaneous

View of Sheikh Zayed bin ... MiscellaneousView of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. In the foreground large tufts of qassis (sedge) grow on the slope of a large sand dune. In the far right distance Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party rests in a depression at the bottom of a high sand dune amongst large bushes. Behind them in the distance one member of the party stands halfway up the high dune slope, which is dotted with small tufts

A crowd of shoppers and traders gathers in the background

Successive dune ridges rise from the near foreground into the far distance

Exterior view of the mudhif (guest house) belonging to Zair Hashim Bidin of the Al Hasan tribe

Sir Basil Gould is in the middle distance with horses belonging to the Mission he was leading to Lhasa in the background

The man wears a waistcoat and a cartridge belt over his thobe (long shirt)

View of a line of Wilfred Thesiger's Nuer porters trekking through waterlogged terrain

A large dune cross-crossed with sand ridges rises from low slopes in the foreground into a high crest in the far distance

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

The wall on the right encloses a date palm grove

On a further dune second cluster of plants grows on a dune slope

An older man with a long bushy grey beard and short hair sits in the sand with his arm resting on his knee

Portrait of a boy of the Sa'ar Bedouin crouching on the ground in the Raydat as Say'ar