Cornish-born writer, traveller and controversialist James Silk Buckingham (1786–1855) spent much of his early life as a sailor in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean and went on to publish accounts of his extensive travels to India, Palestine and Persia. 1
Since Antiquity the natural pearls of the Gulf have been famed as the finest, most lustrous and most plentiful that the world can offer. From the beginnings of trade until the 1930s, these pearls were a major product of the Gulf’s coastal peoples.
Encompassing a landmass greater than the rest of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean combined, the Arabian peninsula remains one of the last great unexplored regions of the ancient world.
Potts 2012 – In the land of the Emirates: The archaeology and history of the UAE (Trident Press and Sultan bin Zayed’s Culture and Media Centre, Abu Dhabi)
New Perspectives On Recording UAE History, Abu Dhabi 2009: 61-74
Translation of Shuʻāʻ al-shāʼīʻbi-al-lamaʻān fī dhikr asmāʼ aʼimmat ʻUmān.
Historical Geography, Urban Geography, Indian Ocean History, Islamic History, Arabian/Persian Gulf Archaeology
Shimal 1985/1986: Excavations of the German Archaeological Mission in Ras-Al-Khaimah. A Preliminary Report Perfect Paperback – 1 Jan. 1987
The British became the dominant power in the Arab Gulf in the late eighteenth century. The conventional view has justified British imperial expansion in the Gulf region because of the need to supress Arab piracy.
