Close up portrait of Salim ... Alfred Maudslay

Close up portrait of Salim ... Alfred MaudslayClose up portrait of Salim bin Kabina, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, during the party's journey from Jabal Sumeini to the port city of Sharjah. Salim bin Kabina, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, faces forward. His ghutra (headscarf) lies around his shoulders on top of his thobe (long shirt) and his eyes are closed. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that

Muhammad bin Al Jabari

In the background locals mill amongst the traders

In the foreground a boom sits in calm water rippled by gentle waves below a cloudless sky

and a few two storey buildings

View of a somewhat dispersed tumulus burial mound at at Mudayy

In the middle distance Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions trek in a line with their camels along the slope of a large dune

on a dhow (sailboat) in the Persian Gulf near Bahrain

The Potala seen from the west across the plain

and there are two round towers

tending a pot cooking over a fire

Gilded copper Buddhist symbols on the top of Sera Monastery

Seated half length portrait of an Arab man