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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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...Pentagon spokesman. He said the dhows were of "unknown nationality...Kidd first spotted the two dhows about eight miles from the...had to fire twice before the dhows turned away. In related developments...three ships transiting the Arabian Gulf. Request your intentions...
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- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England) April 2, 2006 700+ words
...But within an hour a combination of poor design and free-flowing alcohol among passengers caused the dhow to capsize into the Arabian Gulf. Mr Cubitt said: "It was a death trap, with no stability, and the bottom deck has unbreakable safety...
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...But within an hour a combination of poor design and free-flowing alcohol among passengers caused the dhow to capsize into the Arabian Gulf drowning 57 people, 15 of them British. Mr Cubitt said: "It was a nightmare waiting to happen. Without...
- Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar, 1860-1970.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Historian Sunseri, Thaddeus December 22, 2005 700+ words
...monsoon trade winds, dhows have been the foundation...persistence of the dhow trade, centered on...not final, blow to dhows as regional carriers...the history of the dhow through a variety...monsoon winds made the dhow (as Gilbert tells...environments made dhows well-suited to ...
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...previous dismissal of the dhow trade during the colonial...Indian Ocean--that dhows represented an uneconomic...dependent on steamships, dhows came to be classified...carefully demonstrates how the dhow trade survived and indeed...the simple fact was that dhows were a more efficient...
