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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 623.8224
EAN num: 9780863722592
ISBN number: 0863722598
Label: Ithaca Press
Manufacturer: Ithaca Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 253
Printing Date: 2002-12
Publishing house: Ithaca Press
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Studio: Ithaca Press
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The Arabian dhow, with its characteristic features, is one of the most evocative images of the Gulf, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. The great cargo dhows represented a flourishing trade which stretched from the Mediterranean up to China in the time of the Portuguese and the Dutch from the 16th to the 18th centuries. When the pearling industry was at its height in the 19th and early 20th centuries, hundreds of pearling dhows were actively employed, carrying thousands of seamen diving for the finest pearls, a commodity much sought by the Western powers. In times of war, the dhows were magnificent fighting vessels and associated with the piracy so prevalent in these waters. This book is a product of over two hundred interviews with shipwrights and seamen in the Arabian Gulf and Oman over a period of nine years. It compares information given firsthand with the literature already written on the dhow and on Arab seafaring in the past 70 years, much of which was simply technical. Documenting the dhow as an important element in the prosperity of the area before the discovery of oil, we find in this book the geographical conditions and the historical-linguistical background of each dhow-type, the life-pattern in its role as cargo, pearl-diving, pirate and slaving vessel and also how the sea faring communities interacted with the dhow world.
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A THOROUGH AND SCHOLARLY ACCOUNT OF DHOW CULTURE BASED ON EXTENSIVE FIELDWORK.
LACKS IN NAVAL ARCHITECTURAL PRECISION AND PRACTICAL SAILING EXPERTISE. OFFERS DETAILED SURVEY ON TAXONOMIC CLASSIFICATION OF DIFFERENT DHOW TYPES.
ALSO BRIEFLY ADDRESSES INDO-PAKISTANI DESIGNED DHOWS SUCH AS KUTIYYA (KOTIA).
THE BOOK IS A VALUABLE AND PROFESSIONAL WORK WITH THE ADVANTAGE OF HAVING BEEN WRITTEN BY A READER IN ARABIC.
A NOTABLE CONTRIBUTION TO THE PRESERVATION OF THE LEGACY OF THE DHOW.
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