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View of a member of ... Portraits of notable peopleView of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party standing on a dune in Liwa oasis. The man, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, stands with his hands at his sides on the crest of a low dune ridge. Behind him is another low sand ridge, and beyond that a vast salt flat (sabkha) dotted with vegetation. In the far distance groves of date palms grow along the far edge of a salt flat where it is bordered by high, sheer faced dune

The party's camels are grazing on the large bush

and a hut in the distance

Portrait of a boy at Umm al Khashab

Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions

In the distance buildings crowd around the foot of a high rock promontory

three of whom are standing holing poling sticks

Close up portrait of a tribesman of the Junuba Bedouin near Al Hubi village

and slope across the far distance towards the right

In the far background behind him two disused cannons sit below the fort walls

poling it forward

On the left a group of men stand alongside a length of rolled sail

Portrait of one of Ali bin Mohammed al Imani's sons sitting in front of a stone wall in the village of Al Makhwah