View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... George Dixon Aked

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... George Dixon AkedView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through Al Dhafra sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Dhibi well to Al Batin sands. Two of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, tribesmen of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, lead camels across a wide trough between sand dunes. On the left a man leads a group of camels on foot. In the further distance on the right, a man rides his camel, followed by

At the left two sailors pull on a large wooden oar

The boy wears an embroidered headscarf tied around his head

The man is smoking a wooden pipe

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party resting beneath a tree in the Wadi 'Andam

a tool used to drill holes in flat turquoise and shell beads

In the background a few bushes grow on the flat plain that stretches uninterrupted into the far distance

while behind them two members of the party and a camel wait

one of Wilfred Thesiger's porters

A goat stands in the cave behind her

Thesiger's party making camp under a tree between Buraimi and Dubai

Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling party

Half-length group portrait of three Bedouin men