Thesiger Collection

View of two men standing in a boat loaded with a cargo of reed mats.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or...

View of a boy kneeling on a raft made of bulrushes, paddling it forward, with houses in the distance.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the desert of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali).Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the desert of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali).Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, standing on the crest of a dune in the Awarik sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali).Due to the nature...

View of the snow-capped summit of Mir Samir (6,059 metres), taken from the Chamar Pass.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or...

Portrait of a youth shortly after his circumcision, wearing a band round his forehead to which he has fastened the stuffed skins of small birds he has shot with his...

Close-up profile portrait of Lawi, a young Samburu man, taken shortly after his circumcision. He still wear the black skin cloak and has also been adorned with woman's earrings and...

View of a boat carrying a load of fodder, being poled forward by a man standing at the stern and paddled by a boy in the bow.Due to the nature...

View of two men and a woman, standing, holding a rope, drawing water at Manwakh well.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...

View of two boys (named Musallim bin Anauf and Said bin Kabina, the younger brother of Salim bin Kabina), members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, sitting on the ground, tending...

View of the snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro (5,895), the highest mountain in Africa, with Mawenzi peak on the left and Kibo peak on the right, and buffalo or wildebeest grazing on...

Interior view of the mudhif (guest house) belonging to Ali ibn Dibkal of the Al Juaibar tribe, with a man sitting at the coffee hearth and a lamp prominent overhead.Due...

Portrait of a boy, a Sayid (person having or claiming descent from the Prophet). He has just been circumcised, as evidenced by his blocked nostrils.Due to the nature of these...

View of two men sitting astride saddled yaks, with snow-covered mountains in the distance.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage...

Portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before...

View of the snow-covered Chilinji Pass, with members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party walking in the foreground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

View of a glacier below the Chilinji Pass, with a man standing on a rock outcrop in the foreground, and snow-covered mountains in the distance.Due to the nature of these...

View of the snow-covered Chilinji Pass, with members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the foreground, and mountains in the distance.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce...

View of the Masjid-i Jami ('Friday Mosque') at Herat, with a large bronze cauldron in the foreground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...