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Book Synopsis The Life of the Red Sea Dhow by : Dionisius A. Agius
Download or read book The Life of the Red Sea Dhow written by Dionisius A. Agius and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few images are as evocative as the silhouette of the Arab dhow as, under full sail, it tacks to windward on glittering waters of Red Sea before moving across the face of the rising or setting sun. In this authoritative new book, Dionisius A. Agius, one of the foremost scholars of Islamic material culture, offers a lucid and wide-ranging history of the iconic dhow from medieval to modern times. Traversing the Arabian and African coasts, he shows that the dhow was central not just to commerce but to the vital transmission and exchange of ideas. Discussing trade and salt routes, shoals and wind patterns, spice harvest seasons and the deep and resonant connection between language, memory and oral tradition, this is the first book to place the dhow in its full and remarkable cultural contexts.
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.
Book Synopsis In the Wake of the Dhow by : Dionisius A. Agius
Download or read book In the Wake of the Dhow written by Dionisius A. Agius and published by Garnet & Ithaca Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arabian dhow, with its characteristic features, is one of the evocative images of the Gulf, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. This book features over two hundred interviews with shipwrights and seamen in the Arabian Gulf and Oman. It compares information given firsthand with the literature already written on the dhow and on Arab seafaring.
Book Synopsis Seafaring in the Arabian Gulf and Oman by : Dionisius A. Agius
Download or read book Seafaring in the Arabian Gulf and Oman written by Dionisius A. Agius and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the seafaring communities of the Arabian Gulf and Oman in the past 150 years. It analyses the significance of the dhow and how coastal communities interacted throughout their long tradition of seafaring. In addition to archival material, the work is based on extensive field research in which the voices of seamen were recorded in over 200 interviews. The book provides an integrated study of dhow activity in the area concerned and examines the consciousness of belonging to the wider culture of the Indian ocean as it is expressed in boat-building traditions, navigational techniques, crew organisation and port towns. People of the Dhow brings together the different measures of time past, the sea, its people and their material culture. The Arabian Gulf and Oman have traditionally shared a common destiny within the Western Indian Ocean. The seasonal monsoonal winds were fundamental to the physical and human unities of the seafaring communities, producing a way of life in harmony with the natural world, a world which was abruptly changed with the discovery of oil. What remains is memories of a seafaring past, a history of traditions and customs recorded here in the recollections of a dying generation and in the rich artistic heritage of the region.
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 The Dhow written by Clifford W. Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book So Old a Ship written by Marion Kaplan and published by Moho Books. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ocean-going Arab dhows were fast disappearing when, in 1974, National Geographic published 'Twilight of the Arab dhow' by Marion Kaplan, a British-born photojournalist and writer then based in Kenya. For a firsthand view of the ancient trading voyage Marion Kaplan travelled from Kuwait to Dubai on a small Gulf dhow, then from Dubai to Mombasa and down the African coast aboard a larger dhow. She began her voyage as passenger. She ended it as crew. Now, when the world's oldest commercial sailing route has faded into oblivion, she recounts her adventure, with numerous unpublished photos, in So Old a Ship. This is the last close look by an outsider at dhow people, dhow trading and dhow life before those lovely wooden ships were gone forever.
Download or read book Captured at Sea written by Jatin Dua and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is it possible for six men to take a Liberian-flagged oil tanker hostage and negotiate a huge pay out for the return of its crew and 2.2 million barrels of crude oil? In his gripping new book, Jatin Dua answers this question by exploring the unprecedented upsurge in maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia in the twenty-first century. Taking the reader inside pirate communities in Somalia, onboard multinational container ships, and within insurance offices in London, Dua connects modern day pirates to longer histories of trade and disputes over protection. In our increasingly technological world, maritime piracy represents not only an interruption, but an attempt to insert oneself within the world of oceanic trade. Captured at Sea moves beyond the binaries of legal and illegal to illustrate how the seas continue to be key sites of global regulation, connectivity, and commerce today.
Book Synopsis The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces by :
Download or read book The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis In the Wake of the Dhow by : Dionisius Agius
Download or read book In the Wake of the Dhow written by Dionisius Agius and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Little Mother by : Cristina Ali Farah
Download or read book Little Mother written by Cristina Ali Farah and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When civil war erupts in Somalia, cousins Domenica Axad and Barni are separated and forced to flee the country. Barni manages to eke out a living in Rome, where she works as an obstetrician. Domenica wanders Europe in a painful attempt to reunite her broken family and come to terms with her past. After ten years, the two women reunite. When Domenica gives birth to a son, Barni, also known as Little Mother, is at her side. Together with the new baby, Domenica and Barni find their Somali roots and start to heal the pain they have suffered in war and exile. This powerful yet tender novel underscores the strength of women, family, and community, and draws on the tenacious yearning for a homeland that has been denied.
Book Synopsis Desert and Water Gardens of the Red Sea by : Cyril Crossland
Download or read book Desert and Water Gardens of the Red Sea written by Cyril Crossland and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dock and Harbour Authority written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Oceanic Histories by : David Armitage
Download or read book Oceanic Histories written by David Armitage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freshly presents world history through its oceans and seas in uniquely wide-ranging, original chapters by leading experts in their fields.
Book Synopsis Channelling Mobilities by : Valeska Huber
Download or read book Channelling Mobilities written by Valeska Huber and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of globalisation is usually told as a history of shortening distances and acceleration of the flows of people, goods and ideas. Channelling Mobilities refines this picture by looking at a wide variety of mobile people passing through the region of the Suez Canal, a global shortcut opened in 1869. As an empirical contribution to global history, the book asks how the passage between Europe and Asia and Africa was perceived, staged and controlled from the opening of the Canal to the First World War, arguing that this period was neither an era of unhampered acceleration, nor one of hardening borders and increasing controls. Instead, it was characterised by the channelling of mobilities through the differentiation, regulation and bureaucratisation of movement. Telling the stories of tourists, troops, workers, pilgrims, stowaways, caravans, dhow skippers and others, the book reveals the complicated entanglements of empires, internationalist initiatives and private companies.
Book Synopsis Men, Ships, and the Sea by : Alan Villiers
Download or read book Men, Ships, and the Sea written by Alan Villiers and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Den amerikanske Kaptajn A. Villiers med erfaring fra sejlads i alverdens forskellige skibstyper beskriver her skibenes og skibstypernes udvikling fra Oldtidens Ægypten til den moderne tid med et væld af instruktive tegninger, diagrammer, kort og ill. efter malerier.
Book Synopsis Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters and on the Eastern Coast of Africa by : G. L. Sulivan
Download or read book Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters and on the Eastern Coast of Africa written by G. L. Sulivan and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
