Thesiger Collection

Group portrait of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (second from left), standing with some of his retainers, holding rifles.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any...

Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger (centre) and members of his travelling party: Mabkhaut bin Arbain, Musallim bin Tafl, Muhammad al Auf and Salim bin Kabina.Due to the nature of these...

Portrait of a young man, sitting on a chair, wearing a plaited conical hat (typical of the Tihama region of Yemen), smoking a water-pipe.Due to the nature of these images,...

View of a man leading two camels across Al Maqta, a ford between Abu Dhabi and the mainland. On the left a man wades through shallow water, leading two camels...

View of boats moored off the beach at Abu Dhabi.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they...

View of men dancing at a circumcision celebration.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 houses and boats at the edge of Dubai, with camels resting on the ground in the foreground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs...

Four of Sheikh Zayed's falconers, holding falcons.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by...

View of tall buildings at Sanaa.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the...

Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.

View of a street or alley in the suk (market) in Dubai.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...

View of the fort at Abha, with people at the market in the foreground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage...

Portrait of a man, one of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's falconers, sitting astride a saddled camel, holding a hooded peregrine falcon on his right arm.Due to the nature...

Desert landscape near the Liwa oasis.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the...

View of a house with wind-towers built on the creek in Dubai, with boats moored in the foreground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of...

Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.

Portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, sitting on a rock, holding a rifle across his lap.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce...

View of Shakhbut bin Sultan's fort at Abu Dhabi.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were...

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party (Salim bin Kabina) walking with two tethered camels in the Batin sands south of Liwa oasis.Due to the nature of these...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party trekking across dunes in Al Humrah sands during their journey to Umm az Zumul. In the foreground a line of tracks leads up the side...