Thesiger Collection

Group portrait of three Arab cultivators near the city of Sabya. They are each wearing a broad brimmed straw hat and carrying a long stick.Due to the nature of these...

Mountain landscape in the region above Wadi Kidyut, west of Sarif wells.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...

View of date palms growing in a depression in Liwa oasis. A grove of young date palms grows in the centre of a depression, surrounded by high ridges of sand....

Portrait of an Arab falconer, a retainer in Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party, riding a camel with a falcon in the sands surrounding Al Ain. A falconer...

View of Sa'ar Bedouin watering their camels at Manwakh. People and camels crowd around the well.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...

Portrait of two Bedouin men from Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party tending dinner in camp during the party's journey to Al Mukalla. The man sitting on the right may be Mabkhaut...

Landscape of a man standing at the bottom of a steep rock face in the Wadi Difan near Wadi Mazanan. There is a tunnel opening in the middle of the...

Portrait of Salim bin Tamtaim, a sheikh of the Bayt Ghuwas lineage of Bayt Kathir Bedouin, standing on a hillside in Jabal Qara. Salim bin Tamtaim was one of the...

Seated profile portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha, one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions, by a watchtower in the Al Ain/Buraimi Oasis. Salim bin Ghabaisha sits on a ruined wall with...

View from the guest house at Abha over other buildings towards the pass to the Tihamah.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...

Full length standing portrait of a man in a Sharjah street. A man stands in front of an entrance to a building made with coral on a street in Sharjah....

View of two of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions at a watchtower in Al Ain/Buraimi oasis. On the right two men with rifles sit on a ruined wall beside a large...

Landscape in Humum country in the Jol region between Fughmah and Ghayl bin Yamayn.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage...

Seated portrait of Wilfred Thesiger taken by an unknown photographer at the southern end of the mountain Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet) near Al Qabil. Wilfred Thesiger sits in the foreground,...

View of Muhammad's encampment in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands near Bir al Tawil. Three people stand beside a small striped goat-hair tent which has been pitched amongst sand dunes...

Portrait of a man of the Mutayr tribe. He has a curved dagger in his belt.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party resting beneath a tree during their journey from the Wadi Kidyut to Shib Waqtaat. The men and camels are gathered underneath a large tree.Due to...

View of a crowd of locals and traders at the suq (market) in the town of Abha. A number of donkeys stand in the foreground carrying heavy loads of wood....

In the yard of a building at Seiyun.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 Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting camp in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. In the foreground a member of the hunting party stands nearby piles...