oman - moving sands

In the late 1940s, Wilfred Thesiger set off for the empty quarter in the Arabic Peninsula to live amongst the Bedu people, experience their everyday challenges of hunger and thirst, the trials of long marches beneath the relentless sun and the constant danger of death. He was the first European to visit most of the region, and right after he left the area, the process that would change it forever had begun – the discovery of oil.

Almost eighty years later, I set off for the empty quarter.