From the many thousands of photographs taken over fifty years - with a Leica camera, protected from sand, frost, or the miasma of the marshes in its little goat-skin bag - Thesiger has chosen for this book the photographs which most satisfy him as photographs. Here, for the first time, are images of Africa where he has spent most of the last twenty years; some rarely seen photographs from his Asian travels; and a mixture of familiar and unknown pictures of the Arab world in which he found himself most, and most memorably, at home.