Buildings at Dhahran built onto ... Arabia

Buildings at Dhahran built onto ... ArabiaBuildings at Dhahran built onto a hill. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.

At Fughmah

In the background tufts of vegetation grow on a vast flat plain that stretches into the far distance

In the background a ridge of mountains rises to a high peak in the distance

A boy on the dhow on which Thesiger traveled from Dubai to Bahrain

It is wearing a wooden Omani saddle and a chain halter and neck rope

In the background low rolling dunes stretch off into the distance

wearing a black felt hat

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking across dunes in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) during the party's journey from Jaladah plain to Bani Ma'arid sands

a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin and a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party

on the right

The boy second from the right is wearing a leather necklace with two leather prayer amulets

on a sand dune in the Baynunah or Al Khatam sands during the party's return journey to Al Ain