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Codrai, Ronald: Lejeune, Anthony (Ed) : The Emirates of Yesteryear (UAE)

London: Stacey International, 2001

First published 1990 as 'The Seven Shaikhdoms', this is the second revised edition, paperback, 11" x 8.5", very good condition, illustrated glossy card covers with crease to top right front corner and slightly shelf worn, 174 pages , sepia photo illustrations---'Change came so rapidly to the 7 Shaikhdoms - as they were before the Federation in 1971 - that the remarkable photographs taken by Ronald Codrai in the 1940s and early 1950s, reproduced here with his commentary, constitutes a unique record of a way of life which has almost completely vanished. So here are tribal nomads riding in from the Rub al Khali, the largest sand desert in the world, here are the first motor expeditions to the oases of the Liwa, the feared Shihuh tribesmen in their highland fastness of Musandam, and the shaikhs and rulers, the pearling boats, the merchant mariners in their sailing vessels, the fishermen, the falconers, the suqs, scribes and sailmakers, those who taught the Koran and those who dug the wells.'

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