Thesiger Collection

View of a badan, a small dhow (sailboat) beached on Shindagha beach in Dubai. The badan is beached in the sand with its bow pointing towards ocean on the left....

Portrait of a man of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin at Ma' Shadid well in Dhofar.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or...

Portrait of a peregrine falcon (shahin), belonging to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party, resting in the sands near Al Ain. A peregrine falcon perches on a carved...

View of two members of Wilfred Thesiger's party riding their camels in the Ramlat as Sahmah. Each of the camels is grazing on a bush in the midst of a...

Half length seated portrait of Bil Ghaith, one of Wilfred Thesiger's Hejaz guides, in the region of Jabal Dhahran or the Bani Malik Mountains. Bil Ghaith, a teenaged boy from...

View of Qasr Ibrahim fort in the town of Al Hofuf in the Al Hasa Oasis. In the foreground a round tower sits on the right. In the background Qasr...

Full length portrait of two Bedouin boys near the town of Ash Shihr. In the background camels are couched in the sand behind them. Due to the nature of these...

Half length portrait of a young Arab man with herbs in his hair standing in front of a wall in the coastal town of Al Birk. Due to the nature...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking along Al 'Aradh in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). In the foreground a tree grows at the edge of a rocky area....

View of two women from the Bayt Gidad lineage of Bayt Kathir Bedouin tending goats in the Wadi Haluf. In the foreground two Bayt Gidad women stand with their herd...

View out across a valley from the rooftop of a building in the town of Ad Dhafir. In the foreground stands a round watchtower made of stone. In the distance...

View of farm fields at the bottom of a valley near Baiman in the region between the city of Abha and the village of 'Ar'arah. A square watchtower sits along...

View of one of Wilfred Thesiger's guides standing in a valley on Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] mountain. In the foreground a man wearing a thobe (long shirt) and ghutra (headscarf)...

Wilfred Thesiger's party in the region between Ghayl bin Yumayn and Wadi 'Arf. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage...

Full length seated portrait of Ahmed, Captain Haji Mansur's mate, on a dhow (sailboat) in the Persian Gulf near Bahrain. Ahmed sits in the sun on a wooden yard that...

A street in the town of Qasam in Wadi Hadhramawt. A number of people stand in a street surrounded by adobe buildings. The houses are two and three storeys high...

Portrait of two boys at the village of Ash Shuqaiq.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they...

Seated portrait of three Bayt Qatan tribesmen in the Jabal Qara mountains. The three men sit together facing forward.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs...

View of one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling companions in the dunes of Al Batin sands, south of Liwa oasis. A Bedouin man stands holding his rifle under his arm....

A member of Wilfred Thesiger's party on his camel at Dahal. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...