تاريخ النشر: 01/01/1971
الناشر: مكتبة لبنان ناشرون
توفر الكتاب: نافـد (بإمكانك إضافته إلى عربة التسوق وسنبذل جهدنا لتأمينه)
نبذة نيل وفرات:The peninsula of Arabia, with its literary associations, its srange customs and taboos, its relics of an ancient civilisation that exerted a far-reaching influence on the Classical World, has always exercised a fascination over the minds of Western travellers and writers. Oman, that area to the extreme south-east of ...the peninsula, necessarily partakes of the character of the rest of Arabia, but has outstanding features of its own. Dr. Wendell Phillips, archaeologist and oilman, has travelled as extensively in Oman as any living explorer, and from 1949 until the present day has led a series of pioneer expeditions which have produced important scientific results. In the present book he writes of his adventures in Oman.
His travels took him from Muscat in the East-'Hellish Muscat' it has been called on account of its fierce heat-along the fertile date-growing Batinah coast, into the desert, the home of the nomadic Bedouin tribes, across rocky mountain ranges, to Sohar, Salalah and other cities-through country lush and green, desert scrubland, dusty villages, modern towns and prehistoric sites. All these travels and his excavation of the ruins of earlier civilisations he graphically describes, and also studies and analyses the problems current in Oman today: marriage customs, divorce, slavery, the laws of hospitality, the status of women, religion. the position of Christian missions, education, and the many diseases to which the people are subject, and the traditional and modern medical treatment accorded to them.
Unknown Oman is a vividly-written and valuable account-often amusing, always fascinating-of the experiences of an exceptionally well-informed enquirer in a land that is, as yet, little known to the Western world. إقرأ المزيد