View of the square in ... Images of Wilfred Thesiger

View of the square in ... Images of Wilfred ThesigerView of the square in front of the Sultan's Palace in the city of Shibam in Wadi Hadhramawt. In the foreground a donkey walks toward a well in the middle of the square. The minaret of Maruf ba Jamal Mosque is visible on the left. On the right is the Sultan's Palace. It is comprised of two large multi storey buildings, each one painted with thick alternating horizontal stripes. The windows of the palace are covered with carved wooden grilles. Due to

View of two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a well in Al Batin sands

View of the monolithic rock-hewn church of Giorgis at Lalibela

Behind them a barren plain stretches to meet a low hill in the far distance

The shaven head hair styles are very youthful and would have been a fashion in the period for young women

with two boys by its entrance

gathered around a dead lion shot by Wilfred Thesiger to spare them from losing further livestock

At the centre one man is drinking from a metal bowl

stands holding the head ropes of two saddled camels

View of houses at Korgal

and further beyond trees grow in the far background

with a man standing

demonstrating the use of a pump-drill