Dionisius A Agius

Broschiertes Buch

In the Wake of the Dhow

The Arabian Gulf and Oman

Beschreibung

The Arabian dhow, with its characteristic features, is one of the evocative images of the Gulf, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. This book features over two hundred interviews with shipwrights and seamen in the Arabian Gulf and Oman. It compares information given firsthand with the literature already written on the dhow and on Arab seafaring.

Autor

Dionisius A. Agius is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Material Culture at the University of Exeter. His research is mainly on the comparative and historical aspects of Arabic language, society and culture, focusing particularly on the semantics of material-cultural terminology, with a special interest in ship-types and ship-building techniques in the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Garnet Publishing Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9780863723414
• ISBN-10: 0863723411
• Artikelnr.: 24952130