Thesiger Collection

View of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party at a well in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. In the near left foreground two camels wait beside a...

View of townspeople walking on the street in front of Qasr Ibrahim fort in the town of Al Hofuf in Al Hasa Oasis. Due to the nature of these images,...

View of men standing in front of houses in the city of Dubai. On the left two men holding camel sticks stand talking in the street in front of two...

View of desert landscape in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands. In the central foreground a tree grows in the midst of sand dune. In the distance beyond ridges of rolling...

Wilfred Thesiger's party making camp. A pot is on the fire. Two more pots and a coffeepot stand on the ground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce...

Full length portrait of two boys standing in front of a bush in the Wadi Hali. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party riding camels across a sand flat dotted with scattered vegetation in the Ramlat as Sahmah. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce...

Portrait of Masa'ud, a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, sitting in the sand during the party's journey from Yisub well to Wadi Darbat. Masa'ud is a tribesman of the...

View from above overlooking Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in the Wadi Halfayn. In the distance a member of the party stands on a vast flat plain. A few trees...

Group portrait of five members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party eating food in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands. Five members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party sit in a semicircle around...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party making camp at Furai well in Sharqiyah Sands. Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions and their camels rest on a vast flat plain beside a clump of...

Portrait of a Jewish boy standing in a crowd at the Suq al Khamis [Thursday market] in the town of Najran. The boy in the centre left is Jewish.Due to...

Standing half length portrait of two boys at Al Ma'ala harbour in the city of Aden. Behind them beached dhows (sailboats) and other craft lie on the shore. Due to...

Seated portrait of two Sahul Bedouin tribesmen at the Ar Rumhiya wells near Ar Riyadh. In the near distance two Sahul Bedouin men sit beside a camel in sand littered...

Seated portrait of an elder tribesman of the Wahiba Bedouin in the Wadi Halfayn. The man has a thick beard and wears a light coloured thobe (shirt) topped with a...

View of tall round watchtowers in the town of Badr. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before...

View of two woman from the Bin Maaruf lineage of Sa'ar Bedouin leading camels at Manwakh well. The near camel is loaded with a camel litter, which is made from...

View of a large, ocean-going boom, a Kuwaiti built trading vessel, under repair at the harbour in Kuwait City. The boom is propped upright with wooden piles. Four men work...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party resting in the Ghanim Sands during the party's journey from Mughshin Oasis to Khawr bin 'Atarit well. The party's camels are grazing on ghaf [Prosopis...

Houses at Abha. These are square buildings with small windows, some with several storeys, and with flat roofs.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of...