Half-length seated portrait of one ... Sue Johnson

Half-length seated portrait of one ... Sue JohnsonHalf length seated portrait of one of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's retainers in Al Ain. The man is seated with a rifle under his right arm. He wears a thobe (long shirt) with a headscarf (ghutra) topped with thin black aghal (head ropes). Behind the man is a flat plain of rocky sand, almost bare of vegetation. This image was taken during April 6 30, 1948, when Wilfred Thesiger stayed at Al Muwaiji fort in Al Ain as a guest of Sheikh Zayed bin

The water is passed up the well in buckets and poured into a trough from which the cattle drink

A number of pots sit in the sand around the men

and a hut in the distance

Group portrait of two women

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

People in front of the fort at Buraymi

View of sandy excavations in the city of Tarim

heading towards the right

View of a boom

View of a line of people gathered outside the rock-hewn church of Imrahanna Krestos at Imraha

Full length portrait

wearing a garland of sweet-scented herbs in his hair