View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:natural

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:naturalView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding camels through the Wadi al 'Arad sands. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.

The high mountains encircling Lhasa can be seen in the distance with low clouds touching their peaks

Wilfred Thesiger's party near the Ad Dibin palm groves

rises into a ridge of dunes in the distance

Portrait of a boy with plaited hair

Rows of square one and two storey buildings made of stone sit overlooking a large square

On the left

At this time fresh water was imported to Kuwait by boat

In the left background ghaf trees grow across a vast expanse of sand

It has a ring round it which he shakes when he reaches his destination

hanging behind an altar/table with brass pots

with a man sitting on a rocky ledge in the foreground

He scratches at his beard with his right hand and leans on his camel stick with his left