Thesiger Collection

Portrait of Muhammad al Auf, a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, and a tribesman of the Wahiba Bedouin sitting beside a cooking fire in the Wadi Hawshi. Muhammad al...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party at a well in the plains below Hamrat ad Duru, during the party's journey from Masruq well to Al Hubi village. On the left members...

Wilfred Thesiger's party making camp in desert landscape north of the Ramlat al Ghafah, west of the Umm as Samim quicksands.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party at a well near Al Hubi village. In the foreground one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling companions hauls up a bag of water from a...

View of a salt flat (sabkha) with sparse vegetation in Liwa oasis. A large sand depression lies in the foreground, bare of living vegetation. In the salt flat beyond, salt...

Mahra Bedouin with water-skins at the Sarif wells.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived...

View of dhows (sailboats) moored in Dubai Creek at sunset. In the right foreground sailors stand on top of a moored dhow. In the left background piles of coral sit...

Standing full length portrait of the Imam of Oman's representative at the southern end of Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet), near Al Qabil. The Imam of Oman's representative, who accompanied Wilfred...

View of a group of Sa'ar Bedouin camping at Manwakh well. In the foreground a few camels rest in the sand. Due to the nature of these images, prints will...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party watering camels at Al Maghar well. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that...

Seated portrait of a Bedouin tribesman at Sheikh Zayid bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting camp in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. A middle-aged man with a thick dark beard...

Half length portrait of an Iranian porter (possibly Baluch) standing in front of a wall in Dubai. A man with a trim moustache stands against a wall, facing directly foreward....

View of dunes and a vast sand flat in the 'Uruq ash Shaybah region of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali).Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce...

Close-up portrait of a young man of the Mahra Bedouin in the Wadi Shutaynah or Wadi 'Aydim.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

View of dhows (sailboats) moored in Dubai Creek. In the foreground a group of dhows are moored crowded together in Dubai Creek.Due to the nature of these images, prints will...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through Al Batin sands near Liwa during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). Two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party,...

Half length portrait of two Bedouin boys, members of a camel caravan resting outside the city gates of Al Mukalla.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any...

View of an abandoned 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....

Group portrait of four of Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan's retainers on the Corniche in Abu Dhabi. Two men and two boys kneel in a line in at the...

Huts and palm trees at a village in the lower Wadi Damad region, east of Sabya.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...