Thesiger Collection

View of a line of palms growing alongside the city wall of Shibam. Tall multi-storey buildings fill the city behind the city wall. Due to the nature of these images,...

View of the walled village of Marat in the Al Washm region. High defensive towers sit at intervals along the city walls, which also enclose a date palm plantation. Due...

View of a rocky peak on Jabal Buwaydah, a long low mountain below Jebel Kawr. A large dead tree sits in the near foreground, while in the distance many other...

View of desert landscape in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands. In the central foreground a bush grows near the edge of a sand dune. A steep depression sits on the...

Street in Shibam. Tall houses, several storeys high. People and camels in the street. A shrine with a cloth canopy sits in the middle of a street.Due to the nature...

Wilfred Thesiger's party 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 or damage...

View of Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammed Al Qasimi's fort in the town of Ras Al Khaimah. In the central foreground a stand of palm trees grows on a vast sand...

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

View of a man and a boy of the Sa'ar Bedouin hauling water from Manwakh well. They are pulling on a ropeDue to the nature of these images, prints will...

Portrait of a group of young men and boys from the Humaydah tribe standing on rocky ground in the region between Suq ath Thulutha and Wadi Hali. The boy on...

View of a woman of the Bin Maaruf lineage of Sa'ar Bedouin standing in front of her tent at Manwakh well. Due to the nature of these images, prints will...

Portrait of Salim bin Kabina, one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions, standing in Al Khatam or Al Humrah sands south of Al Ain. In the foreground a large bare branch...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in a small wadi east of the wells at Sanaw. A number of Bedouin men sit on their camels while the camels graze on...

Portrait of a tribesman of the Utaybah Bedouin standing beside Al Qaiyah well. In front of him a black goat drinks water from a hawd, a wood and leather water...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party camping beneath a large ghaf [Prosopis cineraria] tree at the western end of the Wadi Mughshin. Due to the nature of these images, prints...

Portrait of two Sa'ar Bedouin boys sitting on the ground in the Raydat as Say'ar. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding through desert sands during the party's journey from the Wadi al 'Ayn to the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands). In...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party trekking with their camels in the Ghanim Sands during the party's journey from Mughshin Oasis to Khawr bin 'Atarit well. Due to the nature of...

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,...

Portrait of a man from the Bayt Itbok section of the Qara tribes.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that...