Pearling in the Arabian Gulf - A Kuwaiti Memoir.

al-Shamlan, Saif Marzooq; Peter Clark; William Facey.

ISBN 10: 1900404192 ISBN 13: 9781900404198

Verlag: London Centre of Arab Studies ( LCAS ), London, 2001

Sprache: Englisch

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Original blue cloth gilt-titled to spine in illustrated dust jacket 16 x 24cm. 190pp including double-page map + (16)pp containing 19 b/w illustrations on glossy paper. Covers fine, lightly bumped to spine head. Binding secure. Interiors mostly fine with some creasing. Dust jacket has some soiling and light creasing. The first English language edition of al-Shamlan's original in Arabic (2 volumes, published in 1975 and 1978), translated by Peter Clark and edited by William Facey. Based on the author's personal recollections as well as documentary and oral sources including divers, ship masters and pearl merchants, it describes the last years of the pearling industry from 1900-30: "the grim conditions of the divers, their food, their work and the tools of their trade, their illnesses and the hazards of life at sea.". There is a glossary of Gulf marine terms. The maps show Kuwait and the northern Gulf. The illustrations (some of which credited to Shakespear) show sailing vessels, divers and crew, and members of the author's family.

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Titel: Pearling in the Arabian Gulf - A Kuwaiti Memoir.
Verlag: London Centre of Arab Studies ( LCAS ), London
Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 1900404192
ISBN-13: 9781900404198
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Fine
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good

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Born in Kuwait in 1926, into a distinguished Kuwaiti family of pearl merchants and seafarers, Saif Marzooq al- Shamlan describes the final generation of the pearling industry from 1900 to the slump of the 1930s, when the development of the Japanese cultured pearl led to economic disaster for the people of the Gulf.

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A picturesque, poetic, and thoughtful memoir, aptly translated into English by Peter Clark provides the reader with a crystal-clear vision of the pearling industry from 1900 to the 1930s. Highly recommended reading an accomplished contribution to Kuwait and Gulf historical studies, and a must for any non-specialist general reader with an interest in the evolution of the pearling industry. --James A. Cox"The Midwest Book Review" (01/01/0001)

Al-Shamlan provides descriptions of pearling based on his family s accounts and records of their long experience in the industry, his own shipboard observations during his teens, and oral accounts obtained from diverse groups of owners and workers, including occasional bedouin pearl fishers. There are discussions of the role of the pearl in the Qur an and in Arabic literature, Kuwait s maritime history, the growth of pearling, and the work characteristics and living situations of merchants, shipmasters, and divers. Although mostly set before the decline in diving and the pearl trade during the 1930s and the end of the industry in the 1950s, this account also includes an examination of pearling in Oman and India. --B. Tavakolian"Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, Vol. 39 No. 6" (01/01/0001)

This book is a personal journey a fascinating discussion. Al-Shamlan reveals the depth of his uncompromising commitment to Kuwaiti pearling as a noble tradition, and it is this that drives the book. --Steve Mullins"International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. 14 No. 1" (01/01/0001)

The felicitous combination of the author s breezy, rather gossipy style and the fidelity of a translation that allows the pattern of the underlying Arabic to show through, makes this an eminently readable book that will appeal not only to those with special interests, but also to the reader seeking no more than a rattling good yarn. --James Taylor"Asian Affairs" (01/01/0001)

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