Seated portrait of Wilfred Thesiger ... Frame:none

Seated portrait of Wilfred Thesiger ... Frame:noneSeated portrait of Wilfred Thesiger taken by an unknown photographer at the southern end of the mountain Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet) near Al Qabil. Wilfred Thesiger kneels in the foreground, resting his hands in his lap and holding a camel stick. He wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt and leather suspenders over his thobe (shirt) and a headscarf topped with an 'agal (head rope). In the distance behind him trees and bushes grow on a flat plain

Portrait of an elderly man of the Yam tribe taken by Wilfred Thesiger during his journey from the town of Najran to the town of Badr

Small secondary dunes create waves across the dune's surface

with laden camels in the foreground

In the foreground two Bayt Gidad boys and a man stand in a dry riverbed strewn with small rocks

The high limestone cliffs of Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] slope from the near left foreground down to a rock escarpment in deep shadow on the far right

Behind a large number of men race their camels across a vast rocky plain from the near left to the far right distance

leaning his head on a stick

The rest of the caravan is walking towards the right

Further beyond four of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions ride camels across sand towards a few groves of date palms

View of a city square in the city of Jeddah or At Taif

In the foreground ripples of secondary dunes mark the surface of a near sand dune

standing and kneeling around the animal