ISBN10: 1900404192, ISBN13: 9781900404198, [publisher: London Centre of Arab Studies ( LCAS ), London] Hardcover 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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London: the London Centre of Arab Studies, Date: 2000. First edition. hardcover. very good/very good. 8vo. pp.190 2000. the London Centre of Arab Studies ISBN 1900404192 9781900404198 [CA]

London the London Centre of Arab Studies 2000 First edition hardcover Very good in very good jacket pp.190. 8vo.