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In the Wake of the Dhow: the Arabian Gulf and Omann.(Book Review)
By Dionisius A. Agius published by Ithaca Press
ISBN 0 86372 259 8 price 35.00 [pounds sterling] hardback
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 after by western powers. In times of war, the dhows were magnificent fighting ...
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