Seated portrait of a Bedouin ... Frame:white

Seated portrait of a Bedouin ... Frame:whiteSeated portrait of a Bedouin boy at Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting camp in the Al Khatam sands near Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit). A Bedouin boy sits in half profile facing towards the left. He wears wears a patterned wraparound skirt under his thobe (long shirt) and an embroidered ghutra (headscarf) around his head and hanging down over his shirt. He also holds a camel stick under his right arm. To the left, another man sits in the sand

flat sea fills the horizon

In the background a road cuts along the waterfront in front of large square buildings

The wall behind them is decorated with carved plaster embellishments and plants can be seen growing in the courtyard behind

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Khatam sands

looking through the open window of a house

standing in the party's hunting camp in the sands near Al Ain

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands)

In the far background the mountain Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit) rises above a vast expanse of rolling sands dotted with scattered vegetation

Behind the grove a rocky hill rises on the right

Group portrait of five young boys

seen though a line of spears

In the background trees grow in rocky soil along the bottom of Jabal Buwaydah