Thesiger Collection

Portrait of a teenaged boy of the Qara tribe kneeling in sand at a pool in the Wadi Darbat.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party riding across rolling dunes in the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands). Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

View of livestock traders at a suq (market) in the city of Ad Dali'. A large crowd of traders moves amongst cows crowded together in an open air market. In...

Wilfred Thesiger's party in or near Ghayl bin Yumayn.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling party watering camels at a well during the party's journey from Jabal Buwaydah to Al Qabil. Due to the nature of these images, prints...

View of long dune chains in the Sharqiyah Sands, west of Batha' Badiyah.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that...

Full length portrait of one of Wilfred Thesiger's guides standing on a rock outcrop below Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] mountain. In the right foreground a man in an izaar (wraparound...

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

Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger with the four members of his travelling party who accompanied him on his first crossing of the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter). In the first...

View of multi-storeyed buildings built from rammed earth in the town of Dhahran in Qahtan tribal territory.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

Full length standing portrait of two Duru Bedouin boys in the Wadi al 'Ayn. Two smiling Duru boys stand in the foreground facing forward. The boy on the left holds...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party watering their camels at 'Ayn al Hasy well in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). Four men are gathered around the well. Camels wait...

Portrait of an Arab falconer, a member of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party, riding a camel with a peregrine falcon in the Al Khatam sands near Jebel...

Standing full length portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, on a sand dune in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands. Salim bin Ghabaisha, a tribesman of...

View of a lone bare tree at the bottom of a high dune in the 'Uruq ash Shaybah sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). The 'Uruq ash Shaybah...

View of two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding across sand dunes in Liwa oasis. In the right foreground one of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions rides a camel...

Seated portrait of a young man, one of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Bedouin retainers in Al Ain. The man sits in the sand with a rifle tucked into...

View of the top of a high sand dune in the region between Khasfah well and Matki well in the Ghanim Sands. In the far distance a few qaid dunes,...

View of ghaf [Prosopis cineraria] trees growing in sands at the western end of the Wadi Mughshin. A large rolling sand dune fills the foreground. In the distance beyond ghaf...

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in Al Humrah sands during the party's journey to Umm az Zumul. In the near distance one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin...