Portrait of three of Wilfred ... Images of Sheikh Zayed

Portrait of three of Wilfred ... Images of Sheikh ZayedPortrait of three of Wilfred Thesiger's sailing companions on the deck of a sailboat (dhow) in the Abu Dhabi islands. Two men sit at the stern of a sailboat. The man on the right holds a young boy in his lap. The man at the left kneels beside the boat rail on a woven mat. Behind the men a lantern hangs from the cloth covered frame of the boat's awning. In the background a rowboat bobs behind the boat in a calm, flat sea. This image was taken during

The market at Abha with buildings in the background

Wilfred Thesiger's party resting at Min'ar in the Wadi Kidyut

Behind them a few bushes grow on a flat plain that stretches into the far distance

Just to the right camels crowd around a mud trough

a type of wild goat) horns

The well is topped with a wooden frame built from date palm logs

In the distance a number of ghaf [Prosopis cineraria] trees grow

High above the men the moon rises in the sky

from where Wilfred Thesiger sailed after his Awash expedition

are unloading camels in front of the hut

In the far distance Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet) rises high above the horizon

standing against the wall of a ruined fort in the cliffs above Andhur spring