View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Afghanistan

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... AfghanistanView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Al Batin sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Al Dhafra sands to Liwa oasis. A member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, stands at the left with three camels in a depression below a high dune. At the centre two camels walk along the crest of a small sand dune, while at the far right one camel walks

View of the stone watchtower at Al Maqta

a braided neck rope and has a thick black head rope

In the foreground man wades through shallow water

holding a saker (hurr) falcon in the sands surrounding Al Ain

The boy is smiling and wears a plain ghutra (headscarf) tied around his head and a light coloured thobe (shirt)

and Santa Ana Mesa visible in the distance on the left

with limestone cliffs rising up in the distance

may be Sheikh Tahnoun bin Mohammed Al Nahyan

People in foreground and on roof

In the far background a few trees grow in the far distance

A man stands at the centre of the camp amongst scattered saddles

The boy wears a number of amulets around his neck and has a patterned ghutra over his head