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Sons of Sinbad: An Account of Sailing With the Arabs in Their Dhows, In the Red Sea, Round the Coasts pf Arabia, And To Zanzibar and Tanganyika; Pealing in the Persia | 
 enlarge | Author: Alan Villiers
Creators: William Facey, Yacoub Al-hijji, Grace Pundyk
Publisher: Not Avail
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1297474
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 403
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.5 x 1.8
ISBN: 0954479238
Dewey Decimal Number: 915
EAN: 9780954479237
ASIN: 0954479238
Publication Date: December 2005
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Mostly amazing August 14, 2007
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This book is the first person account of Alan Villier's classic regarding his travels around the Indian Ocean with Arabs from Arabia. First published in 1940 it is an interesting insight into the vanishing culture of the sea-faring Arabs who had plied the Indian Ocean and the coasts of Africa for 1500 years or more. Originally these men had mostly been slavers, raiding and colonizing the East African coast, but by 1940 they were poorer, slavery having been abolished, and modernity was catching up with them. The book describes the voyage to Zanzibar, life at Zanzibar and Rufiji, also Aden in Yemen. There is extensive descriptions of Kuwait. There are descriptions of life abourd the Dhow and of life of pearlers in the Persian gulf.
This is classic travel literature, and more so because it describes a seldom discussed subject, one that has vanished for the most part.
That being said the story seems to be missing something intangible, it seems less than complete, for lack of perhaps not enough description, enough interest. But there are many stories of the crew and the life of the Arabs on board ship and their hardships.
Seth J. Frantzman
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