Thesiger Collection

Portrait of a boy of the Bin Maaruf lineage of Sa'ar Bedouin at Manwakh well. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...

View of camels belonging to Wilfred Thesiger's party watering at a falaj (irrigation channel) at the southern end of Jabal Hafit, near Al Qabil. A line of camels are couched...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding across a low dune in Al Batin sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Al Dhafra sands to...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party watering camels in the Al Batin sands near Liwa oasis. At the centre one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions pours a leather bucket full of...

View of Qasr Ibrahim fort in the town of Al Hofuf in the Al Hasa Oasis. In the foreground an Arab man herds a flock of goats across a dry...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party watering at a well in the Wadi Halfayn.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage...

Group portrait of two men from the Bin Maaruf lineage of Sa'ar Bedouin sitting beside a campfire at Manwakh well. One man holds a coffee mortar while a coffee-pot heats...

Portrait of a man taken at a village in Bal Qarn tribal territory in the region between Jabal Harfa and the Wadi Shaybanah. Due to the nature of these images,...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party trekking through dunes in the Al Batin sands, near Liwa oasis. Three of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions lead a line of camels through a gap...

Portrait of a man at Najran.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...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting at Mughshin Oasis. In the background camels cluster around a ghaf [Prosopis cineraria] tree.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce...

View of volcanic landscape in the Bani Hilal tribal area near Jabal Sharif.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party trekking across dunes in Al Humrah sands during their journey to Umm az Zumul. Two of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions ride between rolling sand dunes,...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party watering camels at a well during the party's journey from Jabal Buwaydah to the town of Al Qabil. Due to the nature of these images,...

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding a camel across a sand flat dotted with scattered vegetation in the Ramlat as Sahmah. Due to the nature of...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through the region of the Wadi al 'Ayn. Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions walk in a line, leading their camels across a flat plain....

Half length portrait of Huaishil, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, in Al Muwaiji outside Al Muwaiji Fort in Al Ain. Huaishil, a sheikh of the Mahamid lineage of Duru...

Portrait of two young men and two boys of the Qara tribe sitting on the ground in the Wadi Darbat. In the background camels graze on bushes.Due to the nature...

View of three square shaped tower houses with walled exterior courtyards in the town of Khamis Mushait. The buildings are made from zabur (forced earth) and sit in the midst...

View of Sa'ar Bedouin watering at Manwakh well. In the foreground a woman and a child stand beside a hawd, a wood and leather trough. Behind them a crowd of...