Seated profile portrait of Salim ... Alfred Maudslay

Seated profile portrait of Salim ... Alfred MaudslaySeated profile portrait of Salim bin Kabina, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, riding a camel during the party's journey from Jabal Sumeini to the port city of Sharjah. Salim bin Kabina, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, kneels in the saddle of his camel, facing towards the right [most of the camel's body is outside the frame]. His elbows rest on a rifle in a leather sleeve balanced across his lap. He wears a

sits with his body facing forward and his eyes half-closed

The man sitting in the right foreground is also a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin

In the near distance a few of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling companions cross over the crest of the dune on the right with their camels

crescent-shaped dune which is mostly bare of vegetation

Bedouin gathered at Habarut wells

near Kismim Pass in the Jabal Qara mountains

near the edge crescent shaped depression

Behind him two men

Full length portrait of two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party

The man on the left is Muhalhal bin 'Ati

A portrait of Thesiger sitting on a lion shot by him in Western Nuerland

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in the desert of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)