View of the city of ... Alfred Maudslay

View of the city of ... Alfred MaudslayView of the city of Al Qatan in the Wadi Hadhramawt. The fortified walls and watchtowers of the Raida enclose the town buildings. In the right distance a tall rock escarpment sits behind the city. 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.

where Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions walk with their camels

a camel stick and a pot

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party crossing a stretch of large boulders in the Wadi Qa'ah

Buildings line both sides of the street

View of livestock traders and buyers at an open air market in the city of Sabya

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking in the Uruq al Awarik sands of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

In the background camels cluster around a ghaf [Prosopis cineraria] tree

Standing full length portrait of Salim bin Kabina with Wilfred Thesiger's camel taken during the party's journey from the As Saruq sands to Abu Dhabi

They have just been circumcised

One of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions stands on the curved crest of a low dune

View of loaded camels being led over a rocky plain

Desert landscape with some vegetation and a mountain (Jebel Hafit) in the background