View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Jacques-Philippe Potteau

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Jacques-Philippe PotteauView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party taking a rest in the 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, rests with their camels in front of a rocky triangular hill in the midst of a flat salt plain (sabkha). The area surrounding the hill is dotted with patches of salt bushes. At the far

He wears a patterned ghutra (headscarf) with frayed edges tied tightly around his head and a thobe (long shirt) cinched with a cartridge belt

with two trees in the foreground

possibly Sheikh Tahnoun bin Mohammed Al Nahyan

View of locals and Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a well during their journey from Jabal Sumeini to Sharjah

He wears a floral ghutra (headscarf) with a very thick agal (head rope) and holds a rifle in a protective leather sleeve

holding a peregrine falcon perched on a mangalah (cuff) he wears on his hand

He is carrying a wakir (block) in his right hand

with whom Wilfred Thesiger stayed for a few days during his first crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

A boy with a donkey in the Wadi Hali

In the foreground a man carrying a young boy and two women stand in a narrow street lined with shops

sits on the far right

He wears cartridge belt suspenders over his thobe (long shirt)