Seated portrait of one of ... Images of Wilfred Thesiger

Seated portrait of one of ... Images of Wilfred ThesigerSeated portrait of one of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Bedouin retainers in Al Ain. The man, a tribesman of the Rashid Bedouin, kneels in the sand. He has a pair of black socks slung over his shoulder and a camel stick in his hand. These knitted socks are worn in the sands during the winter and the summer in order to insulate the feet against very cold or very hot sand. The man wears a thobe (long shirt) and a headscarf (ghutra), and has a

View of members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting at the southern end of Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet)

along the bottom of the cliff

Each man also wears a ghutra (headscarf)

Behind him low rolling dunes dotted with tufts of vegetation stretch out into the distance

This image was taken during Wilfred Thesiger's May 18-28

View of a tiger

Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions at a well in a date palm grove at Liwa oasis

heading towards the left

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through rocky country during their journey from the Tamniyah mountains to Al 'Abis village

a tribesman of the Bayt Gidad lineage of Bayt Kathir Bedouin

One member of the party is crouched inside the opening of the well

In the near distance two of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions walk with their camels across an area of low rolling dunes