Thesiger Collection

View of a group of men at a circumcision celebration firing muskets above their heads, watched by a large number of others sitting on walls. At the centre of the...

A boy with a donkey in the Wadi Hali.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were...

Wilfred Thesiger with his camel Umbrausha, which he rode on the journey to Mughshin.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking in the Wadi al 'Arad sands.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that...

View of the Shindagha district from the Bur Dubai side of Dubai Creek. In the foreground 'arish huts and enclosures made from palm fronds line Dubai Creek. In the far...

View of one of the dhows (sailboats) on which Wilfred Thesiger sailed through the Abu Dhabi islands with Sheikh Hazaa bin Sultan Al Nahyan and his retainers. A dhow under...

Portrait of two men standing in the doorway of a house at Suq al Sabt market below Jabal Mana'. The large stone building is covered in plaster and has large...

Side view of a kotia, a large double masted dhow (sailboat) from India, moored at Bahrain Island. A kotia sits in choppy water, its bow pointing to the right. Behind...

View of a crowd of men at Suq al Sabt market below Jabal Mana'. A large stone buildings is visible in the background behind the crowd.Due to the nature of...

Group portrait of Kathleen Thesiger and her sons Wilfred Thesiger (standing, left) and Brian Thesiger (seated), with a servant, at the foot of the steps in front of the new...

View of the round thatched huts, or tukuls, which served as the old British Legation buildings in Addis Ababa (prior to the construction of a new building in 1910-11), where...

Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger (right) and three other members of a hunting party, one of whom carries the head of a Barbary sheep (shot in the Jabal Meidob hills)...

View of the Dal Lake at Srinagar, with a man sitting in a boat the foreground, and mountains in the distance.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce...

Portrait of a young woman (named Matara), the sister of Amara bin Thuqub, one of Wilfred Thesiger's canoe-boys; she is wearing several bracelets on her right arm, and has a...

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 tall houses behind the city wall at Shibam in the Hadhramaut, with a line of camels in the foreground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce...

View of a leopard driven off its kill and up a tree by a pride of lions.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

View of vegetation growing in the Marshes.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by...

Group portrait of men, standing, holding muskets, gathered for a circumcision celebration.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...

View of two boys, standing, holding knives, with several men standing behind them, holding muskets, gathered for a circumcision ceremony.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any...