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Title:Sons of Sindbad : Sailing with the Arabs in their Dhows, in the Red Sea, Round the Coasts of Arabia, & to Zanzibar & Tanganyika; Pearling in the Persian Gulf; & the Life of the Shipmasters & the Mariners of Kuwait
Author:Alan Villiers; Edited by William Facey, Yacoub Al-Hijji & Grace Pundyk
ISBN:0954479238 : 9780954479237
Illustrations:50 b/w photos
Format:Hardback
Size:156x234mm
Pages:416
Weight: .885 Kg.
Published:Arabian Publishing Ltd - July 2006
List Price: 25 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Individual photographers: Maritime history: Kuwait: Yemen: Kenya: Tanzania: Indian Ocean


Reprint of Alan Villiers’ classic account, first published in 1940, of his voyage as a crew-member in a Kuwaiti dhow from Aden to Zanzibar and Rufiji, and then back to the Gulf and Kuwait with the monsoon winds. Villiers also spent some weeks with the Kuwaiti pearling fleet in the Gulf. Vivid and highly readable, Sons of Sindbad is not only a classic of maritime writing but also one of the finest books of Arabian travel.

"...a book that is at once a real pleasure to read but also, on account of its very useful and informative introduction, one that can be placed in the 'serious books' category." -- Erik Gilbert, International Journal of Maritime History, 2007.