Visions of a Nomad

Collins, 1987

Thesiger, the renowned traveller and tavel writer, took these photographs of his beloved nomadic peoples in the
Empty Quarter, the Marches (Iraq). Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nuristan, Ethiopia etc between the 1930s and 1970s. This book has three sections: Africa; the Arab world; and Asia. Thesiger wrote, `'I have never taken a photograph in Europe, nor photographed a European. It has never occurred to me to do so...'