Thesiger Collection

Portrait of members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party men butchering a camel in the Shi'b al Raqq near the Haij well. In the foreground four men are gathered around a...

View of dunes in Al Dhafra sands of the Rub' al Khali, taken during Wilfred Thesiger's journey to Baynunah. In the right foreground the edges of two dunes meet in...

Full length portrait of three young Arab boys in the town of Ash Shuqaiq.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party travelling in Al Khatam or Al Humrah sands south of Al Ain. In the foreground a bare branch pokes out of the side of a...

View of a Manasir Bedouin encampment near Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting camp in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. In the foreground two Manasir men stand...

Full length standing portrait of Salim bin Kabina, one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions, standing on a rock outcrop in Ras Al Khaimah Emirate. Salim bin Kabina, a tribesman of...

View of a dune in sands near Al Ain. The sharp crest of a sand dune stretches from the near left foreground into the right distance, and then along the...

Portrait of a man at near Umm Al Khashab. He is wearing hat made from palm fronds.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

View of local villagers at a settlement in Al Ain / Buraimi oasis. In the near distance a woman walks with two children across a flat sand road towards a...

View of a child walking across a large square in the city of Shibam. Tall mud buildings with small windows line the square.Due to the nature of these images, prints...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through Al Batin sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Al Dhafra sands to Liwa oasis. Three members...

Portrait of a Bedouin man, a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, in the lower Wadi 'Aydim.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

Half-length portrait of a young tribesman of the Rashid Bedouin taken at the encampment of Muhammad, a sheikh of the Rashid Bedouin, near Bir al Tawil in the Ramlat ar...

Wilfred Thesiger's party in the Wadi Madi on the journey to Al Mukalla.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that...

Portrait of an African slave boy on Shindagha beach in Dubai. A boy wearing a light coloured thobe (shirt) and a ghutra (headscarf) leans on his elbows on the gunwale...

Close up profile portrait, taken in the sands near Al Ain, of a thoroughbred female batina camel Wilfred Thesiger owned in 1950. The camel faces towards the left (only its...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party camping in Al 'Aradh in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). In the foreground camels stand in the sand alongside the party's equipment. In...

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

View of trees growing amongst sand dunes in the Wadi al 'Ayn. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that...