Arabian Sands (49 page)
Authors: Wilfred Thesiger
3. The Empty Quarter: the crest of a great dune from the windward side
4. The Empty Quarter: descending a great dune
5. Wind-towers on a house beside the creek at Dibai
6. A Woman of the Harasis
7. A Saar family on the move
8. Bin Ghabaisha
9. Sulaim, our rabia from the Mahra
10. One of the bin Maaruf Saar, the wolves of the desert
11. Zayid’s falconers
12. A camel from the Batina
13. A Kuwaiti boom returning from Zanzibar
14. In the Oman Mountains
15. In the oasis of Liwa
16. Bin Kabina and bin Ghabaisha in Oman
Abal | Calligonum sp. |
Ailqi | Dipterygium glaucum Decne. |
Arad | Salsola cyclophylla Bak. |
Birkan | Limeum arabicum Friedr. and L. indicum Stocks |
Ghaf | Prosopsis spicigera L. |
Had | Cornulaca monacantha Del. |
Harm | Zygophyllum spp. |
Harmal | Rhazya stricta Decne. |
Ilb | Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) Willd. |
Karia | Heliotropium digynum (Forsk.) Aschers ex |
C. Christens. | |
Qassia | Cyperus conglomeratus Rottb. |
Rahath | Eremobium aegyptiacum (Spreng.) Hochr. |
Rimram | Heliotropium Rotschy (Bunge) Gürke |
Sadan | Neurada procumbens L. |
Saf | Nannorrhops aribica Burret |
Shina | Seidlitzia rosmarinus (Ehrenb.) Boiss. |
Zahra | Tribulus spp. |