Portrait of an Arab falconer ... Thesiger Collection

Portrait of an Arab falconer ... Thesiger CollectionPortrait of an Arab falconer, a member of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party, riding a camel with a peregrine falcon in the Al Khatam sands near Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit). A falconer wearing a patterned ghutra (headscarf), a thobe (long shirt) and a wraparound skirt sits astride a tall camel holding a peregrine falcon on a mangalah (cuff) on his arm. The camel stands in profile facing towards the left. Tufts of vegetation grow on the

View of one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a Manasir encampment in Baynunah sands

possibly one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin guides

He is wearing a waistcoat over his thobe (long shirt) and holds a rifle against his shoulder

The Lhasa United football team who challenged the British Mission to a game of football

Portrait of a teenage boy of the Bayt Zabnawt lineage of Mahra Bedouin in Wadi Shalhamit

A middle-aged man with a small straight moustache stands on a Dubai street in front of wooden door

Group of women at Laduma's kraal

Nearby piles of coral

In the foreground members of Wilfred Thesiger's party walk with their grazing camels through vegetation growing in the sands

Overhead the sky is empty of clouds

Behind them barren sand stretches across the wadi to a rocky slope in the background

At Al Mukalla