View of a large, ocean-going ... Thesiger Collection

View of a large, ocean-going ... Thesiger CollectionView of a large, ocean going boom, a Kuwaiti built trading vessel, under repair at the harbour in Kuwait City. The boom is propped upright with wooden piles. Three men work on the boom from wooden platforms that hang off its side. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.

A high watchtower rises above the city wall

View of a fort in Al Buraimi oasis

while a man on the far right leads a saddled camel by its head rope past piles of gear in the sand

This photograph seems to have been taken from the north

At the centre four men walk towards each other over an open area of grass

The boy stands facing forward

in the sands surrounding Al Ain

Wilfred Thesiger's party at a well in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) in the region between 'Uruq ash Shaybah and Al Dhafra sands

Further beyond another two booms sail into the horizon

poling it forward

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party camping in the sands during their journey from Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat to Furai well

Group portrait of a family of Hamum Bedouin on the Jol of the Raydat al Ma'arah