View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Iran

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... IranView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the sands near Umm az Zumul well, during their journey towards Wadi Al Ayn. In the foreground small tufts of vegetation sprout from a patch of sand where four of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions, far left, are unloading the party's camels. A number of already unloaded camels wander across the sands in search of grazing. In the distance behind them a large white sabkha (salt flat) stretches out below

In the far right distance behind the village a large grove of date palms grows

He is facing towards the right

Portrait of a man of the Bayt Khawar

Behind her five peregrine (shahin) falcons

In the distance beyond one and two storey buildings in the city of Abha sit close together

bundled or made into ropes

sitting in the region between Jabal Baydan and At Taif

On the right a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party waits with camels outside a straw roofed hut

He is wearing a broad-brimmed straw hat

taken during the party's journey from Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat to Furai well

View of Wilfred Thesiger's tarada (sheikh's canoe)

with a man sitting at the coffee hearth and other people sitting along the walls