View of sailors hoisting the ... Africa 2

View of sailors hoisting the ... Africa 2View of sailors hoisting the main sail on a dhow (sailboat) in the Persian Gulf near Dubai. In the foreground a lifeboat filled with sails and rigging sits on the deck of a dhow. Behind the raft a line of sailors hauls on a rope. Above them the main sail is rising towards the top of the mast. This image was taken during Wilfred Thesiger's May 18 28, 1948 journey by dhow from Dubai to Bahrain Island. Due to the nature of these images, prints will

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in the Ghanim Sands

In the foreground a steep ridge of limestone

Seated portrait of two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a Manasir encampment in the Baynunah sands

one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions

Portrait of Mabkhaut bin Arbain

In the foreground tufts of long qassis (sedge) grow on a flat stretch of sand rippled by the wind

looking northwards from Tanta (near Magdala)

View of the castle at Dhala in the Western Aden Protectorate

Close-up of a Samburu initiate decorated with ochre paint and ear ornaments at the end of the circumcision rites

and a ridge of high

He wears a dark flowing bisht (robe) and a thick 'agal (head rope) over his ghutra (headscarf)

A carved door in a wall at Seiyun