Thesiger Collection

View of a ruined building at Sabya al Jadid, the old Idrisi capital. The square building is one storey tall, and its facade is covered with carved ornamental plaster work....

Full length standing portrait of a nakhoda at Dubai Creek. An older man with a grey beard stands on a wall in front of Dubai Creek. He is a nakhoda...

View of a people at a suq (market) in the city of Ad Dali'. People line the streets on market day in Ad Dali'. In the background a tall square...

Portrait of a Bedouin boy in the Jabal Qara mountains.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they...

View of a multi-storeyed tower house with a walled exterior courtyard in the town of Qalat Bishah. The building is made from zabur (forced earth). A large grove of date...

View of locals in a suq (market) in the city of Dubai. Merchants sit to the right of a covered thoroughfare in the shade of a large canopy covered with...

Portrait of a young man of the Manahil Bedouin at Fughmah.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before...

View of a large grove of date palms growing in the Wadi Andhur near Andhur spring. In the far background high rock cliffs run along the far side of the...

View of trees growing on a hillside in a mountainous region between the town of Ad Dhafir and Jabal Baydan.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any...

Wilfred Thesiger's party resting beneath a tree during their journey from the Wadi Kidyut to Shib Waqtaat.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

Wilfred Thesiger's party making camp in the Wadi al Jiz' near its junction with Wadi Mahrat.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's party walking across a dune in the Ghanim Sands, during the party's journey from Khasfah well to Matki well.Due to the nature of...

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at the summit of the Miftah al Khashabah Pass. He is looking out across a vast rocky mountain range.Due to the...

Portrait of livestock traders at a suq (market) in the city of Ad Dali'. In the foreground two traders haggle. One man is presenting a coin to another man while...

Portrait of a peregrine falcon (shahin) with its prey, a MacQueen's Bustard (houbara), in the sands surrounding Al Ain. A peregrine falcon, belonging to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali), during the party's journey from Jaladah plain to Bani Ma'arid sands.Due to the nature of these...

Portrait of a Roma girl standing in front of a stone wall in the village of Al Makhwah. The girl comes from the Al Hud group in Yemen and works...

Seated portrait of a young tribesman of the Manasir Bedouin, whom Wilfred Thesiger met at a Manasir encampment in the Baynunah sands. A teenaged boy of the Manasir Bedouin crouches...

View of sailors changing the sails on a dhow (sailboat) travelling through the Persian Gulf from Dubai to Bahrain Island. Three men perch on a sail yard attached to the...

Portrait of an Bedouin falconer, a member of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party, in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. A young Bedouin man with a short...