Hello Dubai: Skiiing, Sand and Shopping in the World's Weirdest City [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Bennett, Joe

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1847398308 ISBN 13: 9781847398307

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2011

Riassunto

Boom town, modern marvel, commercial hub, where middle-east meets wealthy west, playground for tourists, crawling with ex-pats, built by Indians, owned by Arabs, Dubai has risen from next to nothing to an awful lot in little more than thirty years. How? And can it go on? Has it sold itself to the corporate dollar? Is it anything more than a mall in the desert? Will the sands return? Joe Bennett goes to find out.

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Recensione

‘Intrigued by Dubai’s growing notoriety as an emblem of capitalist excess, Joe Bennett resolved to go there and see it for himself. The result is this meandering travelogue, in which the author wanders the emirate’s expat enclaves and labyrinthine shopping malls, bewildered by the sheer scale of it all’
Financial Times 29/5
‘“Avoid bungy jumping. I’ve jumped. There wasn’t much to it. I was scared, then I jumped, then I bounced, then I dangled, then I was retrieved, then I was given a certificate telling me I’d just experienced an awesome adrenaline rush. I hadn’t. Bungy didn’t for it for me”’
‘My Kind of Town: Queenstown’ Telegraph 6/10
‘Bennett does a good job of standing in for the reader, gazing in slightly befuddled amazement at a surreal, almost alien vision of opulence’
‘Book of the week’, Glasgow Herald 29/5
‘A thoughtful and wry book, it does a decent job of bringing the caricature of capitalism to life’
Big Issue 7/6

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Seven-star hotels, jet-skis and illicit all-night parties . . . Welcome to Dubai
Dubai transformed overnight from a quiet Arabian port into a hub of global trade and finance and quickly became the new ex-pat paradise. At the height of the emirate's economic boom, scores of British flocked there to bask in the sweltering heat and to enjoy a life of excess fuelled by high wages and non-existent taxes.
But when the economic crisis put the wind up global capitalism, Dubai came to be seen as the emblem of a rotten world. Dubai was brash. Dubai was exploitative. Dubai was a speculative bubble. Dubai, in short, was plain bloody horrible.
In Hello Dubai, Joe Bennett embarks on a quest to discover just what Dubai really is.
Absurdly funny, wise and witty, Hello Dubai is another wonderful journey from the author of A Land of Two Halves, Mustn't Grumble and Where Underpants Come From.
Simon & Schuster UK
978-1-84739-830-7
Travel Writing
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Su questa edizione

• Editore: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1847398308
• ISBN 13: 9781847398307
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272