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Download or read book Sons of Sindbad written by Alan Villiers and published by Arabian Pub Limited. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, an Australian sailor and maritime historian, made a name for himself as an adventurer in the 1920s and 1930s. He visited Arabia in 1938. In this title, his photographs depict the life and skills of the Arab dhow sailors, of the ports along the route, of Kuwait itself, and of the pearl divers of the Arabian Gulf.
Download or read book Sons of Sinbad written by Alan Villiers and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Villiers wrote 'Sons of Sinbad' in 1940, an account of his Arabian voyages, he used only a handful of the thousands of photographs he had taken. This volume contains a selection from the collection in the National Maritime Museum.
Download or read book Sons of Sinbad written by Alan Villiers and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sons of Sindbad written by Alan Villiers and published by Arabian Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Villiers travelled to Arabia because he was certain that he was living through the last days of sail, and was determined to record as much of them as he was able. It seemed to him, after two decades at sea, that "as pure sailing craft carrying on their unspoilt ways, only the Arab remained." Choosing Aden as his starting-point, Villiers looked around for Arab dhow masters prepared to take on a lone Westerner as a crewman. At Aden he was put in touch with the captain of one of the great Kuwaiti booms then frequenting the port. This captain, Nejdi, was making the age-old voyage from the Gulf to East Africa, coasting on the north-east monsoon winds, with a cargo of dates from Basra. The return voyage would be made in the early summer of 1939, on the first breezes of the south-west monsoon, from East Africa to Kuwait. From this voyage, made by Arabia's mariners for millennia, Villiers fashioned Sons of Sinbad. Published in 1940, it is the sole work of Arabian travel to have at its centre the seafaring Arabs. Villiers voyaged with his companions as an equal, while deferring to their toughness and indestructibility, and to their superior knowledge of their trade. As great a treasure as the text are the many photographs Villiers took of this voyage by dhow. As in the 1940 editions of Sons of Sinbad, fifty are published here - images that complement the text with depictions of the life and skills of the Arab dhow sailors, of the ports along the route, of Kuwait itself, and of the pearl-divers of the Arabian Gulf. This classic of Arabian travel and maritime adventure is reprinted for the first time since 1969, with a new introduction by William Facey, Yacoub Al-Hijji and Grace Pundyk.--Book jacket.
Download or read book The Indian Ocean written by Alan Villiers and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Scheherazade's Children by : Philip F. Kennedy
Download or read book Scheherazade's Children written by Philip F. Kennedy and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-11-08 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scheherazade’s Children gathers together leading scholars to explore the reverberations of the tales of the Arabian Nights across a startlingly wide and transnational range of cultural endeavors. The contributors, drawn from a wide array of disciplines, extend their inquiries into the book’s metamorphoses on stage and screen as well as in literature—from India to Japan, from Sanskrit mythology to British pantomime, from Baroque opera to puppet shows. Their highly original research illuminates little-known manifestations of the Nights, and provides unexpected contexts for understanding the book’s complex history. Polemical issues are thereby given unprecedented and enlightening interpretations. Organized under the rubrics of Translating, Engaging, and Staging, these essays view the Nights corpus as a uniquely accretive cultural bundle that absorbs the works upon which it has exerted influence. In this view, the Arabian Nights is a dynamic, living and breathing cross-cultural phenomenon that has left its mark on fields as disparate as the European novel and early Indian cinema. While scholarly, the writers’ approach is also lively and entertaining, and the book is richly illustrated with unusual materials to deliver a sparkling and highly original exploration of the Arabian Nights’ radiating influence on world literature, performance, and culture.
Book Synopsis One Thousand and One Nights by : Hanan Al-Shaykh
Download or read book One Thousand and One Nights written by Hanan Al-Shaykh and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arab world's greatest folk stories re-imagined by the acclaimed Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, published to coincide with the world tour of a magnificent musical and theatrical production directed by Tim Supple
Book Synopsis Sindbad the Sailor & Other Stories from the Arabian Nights by :
Download or read book Sindbad the Sailor & Other Stories from the Arabian Nights written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor by :
Download or read book The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven amazing voyages of adventure and danger, shipwreck and heroism, fabulous treasures and terrifying monsters. Originally part of The Arabian Nights stories, the tales of Sinbad the Sailor are among the first, and greatest, adventure stories ever told. Quentin Blake's wonderfully lively illustrations combined with John Yeoman's thrilling storytelling make this an edition to treasure.
Book Synopsis The Arabian Nights by : Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Download or read book The Arabian Nights written by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten stories from the Tales of a Thousand and One Nights, including the well-known ones of Aladdin and the lamp, Ali Baba and the forty thieves, and Sinbad the sailor.
Book Synopsis Fax From Sarajevo (New Edition) by : Joe Kubert
Download or read book Fax From Sarajevo (New Edition) written by Joe Kubert and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brand-new edition of the greatest work from comics master Joe Kubert! The astonishing true story of a family in Sarajevo, Bosnia, trapped in a city under siege as war and genocide rage around them, with only a fax machine to communicate. On the receiving end of these faxes from his trapped friend, Kubert brilliantly illustrates their struggle toward freedom against the worst kind of odds. It's the tale of a very real war, told from the perspective of innocent victims, but it's also full of strength, survival, and love.
Book Synopsis Ali and the Golden Eagle by : Wayne Grover
Download or read book Ali and the Golden Eagle written by Wayne Grover and published by Greenwillow. This book was released on 1993 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American working in Saudi Arabia befriends a boy from a remote village and helps him train an eagle to hunt.
Download or read book The Sinbad Voyage written by Tim Severin and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1998 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the fundamentals of stochastic processes, this title includes the basics of Poisson processes, Markov chains, branching processes, martingales, and diffusion processes. It presents a unique blend of theory and applications, with special emphasis on mathematical modelling, computational techniques and examples from the biological sciences. It is appropriate for students in applied mathematics, biostatistics, computational biology, computer science, physics, and statistics.
Book Synopsis The Art of Dhow-building in Kuwait by : Yaʻqūb Yūsuf Ḥijjī
Download or read book The Art of Dhow-building in Kuwait written by Yaʻqūb Yūsuf Ḥijjī and published by Arabian Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2001 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Kuwait emerged in the 18th century as a young maritime state with an extreme dependence on the sea, it has been renowned for the consummate skills of its sailors and dhow-builders. Kuwait's shipwrights became justly famed for the beauty, seaworthiness and practicality of their vessels, and the Kuwaiti boum became a symbol of Kuwait's maritime prowess on all the dhow routes linking Arabia, Iran, India and East Africa. This book describes in detail how Kuwaiti shipwrights built their vessels, in particular the boum .As with dhows everywhere, this was done entirely by hand and eye, without drawings of any kind. There are chapters on celebrated master builders and famous dhows, on sails, rigging and launching, and on tools and timber. There is also an extensive glossary of Kuwaiti nautical terms. Today the era of Kuwait's sailing dhows is long gone. In The Art of Dhow-building in Kuwait Dr Ya'qub Al-Hijji, himself a Kuwaiti maritime historian, provides a timely memorial of the craft industry which sustained this unique maritime nation. It is lavishly illustrated with drawings, colour photographs and remarkable old black-and-white images.The latter, from the first half of the 20th century, include many by Alan Villiers, and form an eloquent pictorial elegy on the passing of a great maritime tradition.
Book Synopsis The National Geographic Magazine by : Alan Villiers
Download or read book The National Geographic Magazine written by Alan Villiers and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gateways Of Asia written by Frank Broeze and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1997. The dynamic role of port cities has been a major element in the thrust of modern port city literature since. In the process interactions between history and other disciplines, above all geography, economics and town planning resulted in a growing number of collaborative volumes. Indicative of the broad front, multi-disciplinary approach and challenging agenda of this wave of port town and port city studies is the collective and diverse nature of the themes and authorship of each of these works. That very diversity of disciplines, nationalities and perspectives is also one of the main pillars supporting Gateways of Asia. It is not a repetition or summary of the introduction and first chapter of Brides of the Sea, but the publication of this volume, in many ways a sequel to that work, does provide the opportunity of clarifying a few points and elaborating on some issues raised after its publication.
Book Synopsis Margins of the Market by : Johan Mathew
Download or read book Margins of the Market written by Johan Mathew and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between trafficking and free trade? Is trafficking the perfection or the perversion of free trade? Trafficking occurs thousands of times each day at borders throughout the world, yet we have come to perceive it as something quite extraordinary. How did this happen, and what role does trafficking play in capitalism? To answer these questions, Johan Mathew traces the hidden networks that operated across the Arabian Sea in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Following the entangled history of trafficking and capitalism, he explores how the Arabian Sea reveals the gaps that haunt political borders and undermine economic models. Ultimately, he shows how capitalism was forged at the margins of the free market, where governments intervened, and traffickers turned a profit.
