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This book focuses on the images of Oman in British travel writing from 1800 to 1970. In texts that vary from travel accounts to sailors' memoirs, complete trave
The Arabian Desert in English Travel Writing Since 1950
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Pages: 234
Authors: Jenny Walker
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-12-30 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Broadly this book is about the Arabian desert as the locus of exploration by a long tradition of British travellers that includes T. E. Lawrence and Wilfred The
Ordinary Writings, Personal Narratives
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: Martyn Lyons
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Peter Lang

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Historians have often assumed that the lives of the poor and illiterate can never be known because they have left little record of their existence. This book, h
Oman, Culture and Diplomacy
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Pages: 305
Authors: Jeremy Jones
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-10 - Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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This book is a cultural history, offering an historical account of the formation of a distinctive Omani culture; arguing that it is in this unique culture that
Sultan in Oman
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Jan Morris
Categories: Oman
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-07 - Publisher: Eland Publishing

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An account of the first crossing of the Omani desert by motorcar, as Jan Morris accompanied the Sultan on his royal progress, with the winds of change - oil and