Thesiger Collection

View of Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammed Al Qasimi's fort in the town of Ras Al Khaimah. In the central foreground a stand of palm trees grows on a vast sand...

View of two of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions with heavily loaded camels in a gravelly wadi bed in the Wadi Tayyah, near 'Aqabat ash Sha'ar pass.Due to the nature of...

Wilfred Thesiger's party in the Shib Adaru wadi. 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 travelling party riding along Al 'Aradh in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). In the background flat rocky areas rise slightly above the sands. Due to...

Portrait of young Bedouin man standing at Bir Muhammad Yahyah well near Wadi Bayd.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party resting in the Wadi Qinab during the party's journey to Huliyah well. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of...

View of limestone cliffs atop Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] mountain. In the foreground a steep ridge of limestone, mostly bare of vegetation, rises high on the left and slopes down...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting at Shisr well. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before...

Portrait of a boy in the lower Wadi Damad region, east of Sabya. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage...

View of a village in the Al Ghamid tribal region between the villages of Al Makhwah and Thurayban. Farmers' fields stretch across the foreground. In the distance a village of...

Portrait of three palm leaf traders at an open air market in the city of Sabya. In the foreground two men crouch and one man stands in the midst of...

Half length portrait of Huaishil and Yasir bin Hamud, two of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, outside Al Muwaiji Fort in Al Ain. Huaishil, a sheikh of the Mahamid lineage of...

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's party walking with camels at Jabal Buwaydah, a long low mountain below Jebel Kawr. On the left one man leads two camels across...

Portrait of two young men belonging to a Manahil Bedouin raiding party that Wilfred Thesiger met at Huliyah well. The man on the left is leaning on his rifle. Due...

Portrait of two men of the Mahra Bedouin taken in the region between Wadi Khawat and Wadi Shu'ayt.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of...

Standing half length portrait of a young man of the Duru Bedouin, likely a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, at a well in the plains below Hamrat ad Duru,...

View of Musallim bin Al Kamam standing beside a long wall in Al Muwaiji near Al Muwaiji Fort in Al Ain. Musallim bin Al Kamam, a sheikh of the Musaifar...

Portrait of three boys of the Humum Bedouin at Ghayl bin Yamayn.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...

Half length portrait of an Arab boy standing in front of a wall at the open air market in the town of Qalat Bishah. Due to the nature of these...

View of two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a salt flat in Al Batin sands. Musallim bin Al Kamam, a sheikh of the Musaifar lineage of Rashid Bedouin,...