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 Batin sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Al Dhafra sands to Liwa oasis. Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, tribesmen of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, rides across a vast salt plain (sabkha) dotted with salt bushes. Baggage camels follow along behind the men's mounts. In the foreground a few bushes grow in the sand. In the distance a

The market at Najran

Exterior view of the mudhif (guest house) belonging to Haji Ubaid of the Al Hasan tribe

stretches out in all directions

View of boats moored in Ha Long Bay

The crest of the dune stretches from the foreground into the far distance

Portrait of Sheikh Ali bin Said bin Rashid of the Yahahif tribe

In the foreground 'arish huts made of palm fronds sit in fenced enclosures in an expanse of bare flat sand

the 'Sky Dancing Rope Game' or Chakhen Tagshur

Portrait of a young Zuni woman

one of his servants

A number of sailors work on deck around a large sail that has been tied into a tight roll

smoking a water-pipe