View of abras (passenger ferry ... Alfred Maudslay

View of abras (passenger ferry ... Alfred MaudslayView of abras (passenger ferry boats) at a crossing on Dubai Creek. A line of abras wait at a ferryboat station along Dubai creek. A group of men stand in an abra in the foreground. In the background boats are moored alongside one and two storey building which follow the length of the creek. This image was taken during Wilfred Thesiger's May 10 18, 1948 stay in Sharjah and Dubai. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of

He wears a light coloured thobe (long shirt) and a patterned headscarf (ghutra)

tufts of grass and small shrubs

Each of the men has a camel stick

In the far distance more trees grow

In the foreground a peregrine falcon

Three saddled camels are couched on a small patch of sandy ground in a bare rocky plain

View of a fort or city walls in the town of Al Qatif on the Persian Gulf coast

View of deciduous trees growing in a valley in Wadi Jarsis in the Jabal Qara mountains

watched by three men standing just to the left

with people walking along a path in the foreground

during the party's journey from Ayun to Mudayy

which is loaded with oyster shells