An Arabian Utopia: The Western Discovery of Oman

by Alastair Hamilton

Even though Oman had always been familiar to travellers sailing between Europe and India or Persia, it was its coast alone that was known. Greeks and Romans had charted it, medieval merchants traded on it, and in the early sixteenth century the Portuguese conquered its main towns, yet the interior of Oman was all but entirely unknown and would remain so until the early nineteenth century. Only after the ejection of the Portuguese in 1650 and an independent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199581606
• ISBN13: 9780199581603
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Arcadian Library
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 4.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 13.0" x 9.7"