The Heart of Arabia

The Heart of Arabia
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Total Pages : 388
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X001198049
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Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis The Heart of Arabia by : Harry St. John Bridger Philby

Arabia Felix

Arabia Felix
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Publisher : New York Review of Books
Total Pages : 401
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ISBN-10 : 9781681370736
ISBN-13 : 1681370735
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Arabia Felix by : Thorkild Hansen

Discover the riveting true story of the 18th-century expedition that left only one survivor in this lost classic of adventure and travel writing—with 33 drawings and maps. Arabia Felix is the spellbinding true story of a scientific expedition gone disastrously awry. On a winter morning in 1761 6 men leave Copenhagen by sea—a botanist, a philologist, an astronomer, a doctor, an artist, and their manservant—an ill-assorted band of men who dislike and distrust one another from the start. These are the members of the Danish expedition to Arabia Felix, as Yemen was then known, the first organized foray into a corner of the world unknown to Europeans. The expedition made its way to Turkey and Egypt, by which time its members were already actively seeking to undercut and even kill one another, before disappearing into the harsh desert that was their destination. Nearly 7 years later a single survivor returned to Denmark to find himself forgotten and all the specimens that had been sent back ruined by neglect. Based on diaries, notebooks, and sketches that lay unread in Danish archives until the twentieth century, Arabia Felix is a tale of intellectual rivalry and a comedy of very bad manners, as well as an utterly absorbing adventure.

Arabia

Arabia
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Publisher : Hachette UK
Total Pages : 475
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ISBN-10 : 9781473676312
ISBN-13 : 1473676312
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Arabia by : Levison Wood

Shortlisted for the 2019 Edward Stanford Award '[A] rollicking Boys' Own adventure' - Spectator 'This heart-stopping personal account of historic Arabia today.' - Compass Magazine Following in the footsteps of Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, Arabia is an insight into Levison Wood's most complex and daring expedition yet: an epic and unprecedented 5000-mile journey through 13 countries, circumnavigating the Arabian Peninsula. Honest, reflective and poignant, Arabia is a historical, religious and spiritual journey, through some of the harshest and most beautiful environments on Earth. Exploring the Middle East through the lives, hearts and hopes of its people, Levison Wood challenges the perceptions of an often misunderstood part of the world, seeing how the region has changed and examining the stories we don't often hear about in the media.

An Arabian Journey

An Arabian Journey
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Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Total Pages : 380
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ISBN-10 : 9780802147332
ISBN-13 : 080214733X
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis An Arabian Journey by : Levison Wood

The acclaimed author of Walking the Americas shares his epic journey through the war-torn Arabian Peninsula in this fascinating travelogue. Following in the footsteps of famed explorers such as Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer Levison Wood brings us along on his most complex expedition yet: a circumnavigation of the Arabian Peninsula. Starting in September 2017 in a city in Northern Syria, a stone’s throw away from Turkey and amidst a deadly war, Wood set forth on a 5,000-mile trek through the most contested region on the planet. Wood moved through the Middle East for six months, from ISIS-occupied Iraq through Kuwait and along the jagged coastlines of the Emirates and Oman; across Yemen—in the midst of civil war—and on to Saudia Arabia, Jordan, and Israel, before ending on the shores of the Mediterranean in Lebanon. Like his predecessors, Wood travelled through some of the harshest and most beautiful environments on earth, seeking to challenge our perceptions of this part of the world. Through the people he meets—and the personal histories and local mythologies they share—Wood examines how the region has changed over thousands of years and what it means to its people today.

Saudi Arabia in Transition

Saudi Arabia in Transition
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 361
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ISBN-10 : 9781316194195
ISBN-13 : 1316194191
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Saudi Arabia in Transition by : Bernard Haykel

Making sense of Saudi Arabia is crucially important today. The kingdom's western province contains the heart of Islam, and it is the United States' closest Arab ally and the largest producer of oil in the world. However, the country is undergoing rapid change: its aged leadership is ceding power to a new generation, and its society, dominated by young people, is restive. Saudi Arabia has long remained closed to foreign scholars, with a select few academics allowed into the kingdom over the past decade. This book presents the fruits of their research as well as those of the most prominent Saudi academics in the field. This volume focuses on different sectors of Saudi society and examines how the changes of the past few decades have affected each. It reflects new insights and provides the most up-to-date research on the country's social, cultural, economic and political dynamics.

Desert Kingdom

Desert Kingdom
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9780674059405
ISBN-13 : 0674059409
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Desert Kingdom by : Toby Craig Jones

Oil and water, and the science and technology used to harness them, have long been at the heart of political authority in Saudi Arabia. Oil’s abundance, and the fantastic wealth it generated, has been a keystone in the political primacy of the kingdom’s ruling family. The other bedrock element was water, whose importance was measured by its dearth. Over much of the twentieth century, it was through efforts to control and manage oil and water that the modern state of Saudi Arabia emerged. The central government’s power over water, space, and people expanded steadily over time, enabled by increasing oil revenues. The operations of the Arabian American Oil Company proved critical to expansion and to achieving power over the environment. Political authority in Saudi Arabia took shape through global networks of oil, science, and expertise. And, where oil and water were central to the forging of Saudi authoritarianism, they were also instrumental in shaping politics on the ground. Nowhere was the impact more profound than in the oil-rich Eastern Province, where the politics of oil and water led to a yearning for national belonging and to calls for revolution. Saudi Arabia is traditionally viewed through the lenses of Islam, tribe, and the economics of oil. Desert Kingdom now provides an alternative history of environmental power and the making of the modern Saudi state. It demonstrates how vital the exploitation of nature and the roles of science and global experts were to the consolidation of political authority in the desert.

Arabia of the Wahhabis

Arabia of the Wahhabis
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 512
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015005885135
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Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Arabia of the Wahhabis by : Harry St. John Bridger Philby

The Southern Gates Of Arabia - A Journey In The Hadbramaut

The Southern Gates Of Arabia - A Journey In The Hadbramaut
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Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Total Pages : 297
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ISBN-10 : 9781447497707
ISBN-13 : 1447497708
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis The Southern Gates Of Arabia - A Journey In The Hadbramaut by : Freya Stark

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Riyadh

Riyadh
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : 6030103768
ISBN-13 : 9786030103768
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Riyadh by : Mohsen Al-Dajani

Mohammed Bin Salman

Mohammed Bin Salman
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Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Total Pages : 210
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ISBN-10 : 1626379785
ISBN-13 : 9781626379787
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Mohammed Bin Salman by : David Ottaway

"Sheds light on the conundrums at the heart of any attempt to understand Saudi Arabia-and the man who is poised to rule the country for decades to come"--