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Muscat and Oman The End of an Era - Eland Classics

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The Sultanate of Muscat and Oman was a hermit state until 1970, preserving in every detail the poverty, personality and picturesque reality of a medieval kingdom. For forty years, Sultan Said bin Taimur personally controlled everything that happened, deliberately cutting the nation off from the headlong development of the rest of the world. Fortunately for Oman this would change, and fortunately for us, we have a first-hand witness to this complex society before that watershed. Ian Skeet travelled across the vast sand deserts and arid highlands of Muscat and Oman in 1966-8, preparing the wary inhabitants for the coming of oil, visiting its isolated walled cities, fortified oasis communities and independent-minded Bedouin tribes. The sultan's motives may have been pure - to preserve his people from the sin of usury and the slavery of foreign debt - but Ian Skeet's portrait is a devastating study of the dead hand of autocracy.

Book information

ISBN: 9781780602240
Publisher: Eland
Imprint: Eland
Pub date:
DEWEY: 915.3504
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 240
Weight: 328g
Height: 139mm
Width: 216mm
Spine width: 18mm