Thesiger Collection

View of two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in the Sharqiyah Sands. In the background clumps of vegetation grow across a vast expanse of flat sand.Due to the...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding below a rock escarpment near Mudayy.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that...

Portrait of Muhammad al Auf, a tribesman of the Bayt Mbarik lineage of Rashid Bedouin and one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, at the encampment of Muhammad near Bir al...

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

Three-quarter length group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger standing with four sheikhs outside Qasr Al Hosn fort in Abu Dhabi. All of the men wear ceremonial bishts (robes) over their thobes...

View of a long sand dune situated between two sand flats in the Ramlat as Sahmah. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

View of a large fort with a three or four storey square watchtower in the region surrounding the Rumah wells. A man is walking alongside the fort walls. Due to...

View of landscape near the city of Abha. In the foreground large mounds of boulders sit on the top of a barren hillside. In the far distance beyond rolling bare...

Landscape in Humum country in the Jol region between Fughmah and Ghayl bin Yamayn.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage...

Mahra Bedouin of the Bayt Zabnawt lineage with their camels at Habarut [Habrut].Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding camels through the Wadi al 'Arad sands. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or...

Portrait of two men at a suq (market) in the city of Ad Dali'. Two men stand in the foreground next to a saddled animal. On the left a number...

Portrait of two members of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party with camels and falcons in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. In the left foreground a...

Portrait of a boy of the Mahra Bedouin at Habarut [Habrut] wells.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...

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

View of tall houses at Seiyun in the Wadi Hadhramawt, with a mountain in the distance.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...

Close-up portrait of the head of a Batina camel named Ghazala ('the gazelle'), a famous thoroughbred Batina camel owned by Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and renowned for its...

View of a villager walking past 'arish huts at a Bani Yas settlement in Liwa oasis. On the left 'arish huts sit inside a high fenced enclosure made of palm...

View of a somewhat dispersed tumulus burial mound at at Mudayy.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before...

View of a camel belonging to Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party on a salt flat in Al Batin sands. In the foreground thick clumps of leafy zahra (yellow-flowering tribulus) bloom with...