View from the summit of ... Africa

View from the summit of ... AfricaView from the summit of Kismim Pass out across fields and rolling hills in the Jabal Qara mountains. In the foreground large trees grow. In the distance beyond tree covered hillsides border large grass covered downs. This view is looking out towards the Omani coast. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.

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

which is made up of small huts covered in grass and mud

The table is full of dishes

Faris Shahin Salah (Thesiger's orderly

On the right many houses

which stretches out towards a long low mountain ridge in the distance

rocky flat

In the further distance three more members of the party walk and ride in a group

A middle-aged man with a moustache and stubbly beard stands facing towards the left

Street showing framework which is to support matting for shade

The dunes stretch from the foreground into the far distance

View of men on board a dhow