View of Bedouin men in ... Size:large

View of Bedouin men in ... Size:largeView of Bedouin men in front of a tent at a Manasir encampment in the Baynunah sands. A group of Manasir Bedouin men and some of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions gather in front of the men's section of a large tent. On the far left a woven palm mat separates the men's section of the tent. Sahail bin Tahi, a tribesman of the Mudairiba lineage of Rashid Bedouin and one Wilfred Thesiger's companions, is one of four men standing in front of

Beneath his headscarf

one man standing

In the foreground a group of men are gathered around a dead camel

An Arab man stands facing forward in front of a small loaded donkey

In the far left distance

Flailing barley

A line of footprints marks the sand in the foreground

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through the region of Kidan plains (Suhul al Kidan) or Al Batin sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

In the foreground a wind-rippled dune with slopes bare of vegetation rises to a point at the right

supported by columns

cross a vast empty flat plain dotted with sparse tufts of vegetation

In the background the sand dune rises up to a high peak