Sons of Sindbad

Sons of Sindbad
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Publisher : Arabian Pub Limited
Total Pages : 448
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ISBN-10 : 095589462X
ISBN-13 : 9780955894626
Rating : 4/5 (2X Downloads)

Synopsis Sons of Sindbad by : Alan Villiers

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.

Sons of Sindbad

Sons of Sindbad
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Publisher : Arabian Publishing Limited
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0954479238
ISBN-13 : 9780954479237
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Synopsis Sons of Sindbad by : Alan Villiers

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.

Sons of Sinbad

Sons of Sinbad
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Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : PSU:000064521107
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Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Sons of Sinbad by : Alan Villiers

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.

Sons of Sindbad

Sons of Sindbad
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Publisher : Arabian Pub Limited
Total Pages : 480
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ISBN-10 : 0955889464
ISBN-13 : 9780955889462
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Sons of Sindbad by : Alan Villiers

Alan Villiers (1903-82), the Australian sailor and maritime historian, first made a name for himself as an adventurer in the 1920s and 1930s by combining his seafaring skills with his talent as a pioneering photojournalist. He visited Arabia in 1938 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. At Aden, Villiers found an Arab dhow master prepared to take on a lone Westerner as a crewman. Ali bin Nasr el-Nejdi and his Kuwaiti crew were 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, Villiers fashioned Sons of Sindbad . First published in 1940, it is the sole work of Arabian travel to have at its centre the seafaring Arabs. In a real sense the Thesiger of the Arabian Sea, Villiers voyaged with his companions as an equal, while deferring to their toughness and fortitude, and to their superior knowledge of their trade. This great 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. As in the original 1940 edition, 50 of Villiers' many photographs are published here - images that complement the text with strikingly vivid 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.

The Arabian Nights

The Arabian Nights
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Publisher : Lulu.com
Total Pages : 243
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ISBN-10 : 9781365878312
ISBN-13 : 1365878317
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis The Arabian Nights by : Andrew Lang

"Thirty-four stories from the Arabian Nights, adapted for children. One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern fold tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English-language edition, which rendered the title as The Arabian Nights' Entertainment. Collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West, Central, and South Asia and North Africa, the tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Indian and Jewish folklore and literature." --

The Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:B4007715
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Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis The Indian Ocean by : Alan Villiers

The Sinbad Voyage

The Sinbad Voyage
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Publisher : Little Brown
Total Pages : 238
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ISBN-10 : 0349109958
ISBN-13 : 9780349109954
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis The Sinbad Voyage by : Tim Severin

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.

Scheherazade's Children

Scheherazade's Children
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Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 468
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ISBN-10 : 9781479840311
ISBN-13 : 1479840319
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Scheherazade's Children by : Philip F. Kennedy

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.