View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Alfred Maudslay

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Alfred MaudslayView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through Al Batin sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Al Dhafra sands to Liwa oasis. Members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, tribesmen of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, ride across soft rolling sands towards a large salt flat (sabkha). Baggage camels follow along behind the men's mounts. The high dune on the left has a sheer side where it

Tea house in a country town on the road between Chengtu and Chungking

listing heavily to one side

Spectators line the route

crouches in the sand in front of a tree

In the foreground people stand in an field

sits on the far right

the opening of which has been reenforced with concrete or rammed earth

Two sentry boxes

View of a boy kneeling on a raft made of bulrushes

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party in the Wadi Jarsis in the Jabal Qara mountains

The group are in formal dress in preparation for their second official visit to the Potala

In the foreground a large camel caravan unloads just outside the city