Pearling in the Arabian Gulf - A Kuwaiti Memoir.

al-Shamlan, Saif Marzooq; Peter Clark; William Facey.

ISBN 10: 1900404192 / ISBN 13: 9781900404198

Editore: London Centre of Arab Studies ( LCAS ), London, 2001

Original blue cloth gilt-titled to spine in illustrated dust jacket 16 x 24cm. 190pp including double-page map + (16)pp containing 19 b/w illustrations on glossy paper. Covers fine, lightly bumped to spine head. Binding secure. Interiors mostly fine with some creasing. Dust jacket has some soiling and light creasing. The first English language edition of al-Shamlan's original in Arabic (2 volumes, published in 1975 and 1978), translated by Peter Clark and edited by William Facey. Based on the author's personal recollections as well as documentary and oral sources including divers, ship masters and pearl merchants, it describes the last years of the pearling industry from 1900-30: "the grim conditions of the divers, their food, their work and the tools of their trade, their illnesses and the hazards of life at sea.". There is a glossary of Gulf marine terms. The maps show Kuwait and the northern Gulf. The illustrations (some of which credited to Shakespear) show sailing vessels, divers and crew, and members of the author's family. Codice articolo 3145

Riassunto:

Born in Kuwait in 1926, into a distinguished Kuwaiti family of pearl merchants and seafarers, Saif Marzooq al- Shamlan describes the final generation of the pearling industry from 1900 to the slump of the 1930s, when the development of the Japanese cultured pearl led to economic disaster for the people of the Gulf.

Product Description: Book by AlShamlan Saif Marzooq

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Titolo: Pearling in the Arabian Gulf - A Kuwaiti ...
Casa editrice: London Centre of Arab Studies ( LCAS ), London
Data di pubblicazione: 2001
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Fine
Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good