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History of a Transition
This is a specialist's book really.Not that it is overly technical or difficult to read, but that it will appeal chiefly to those with a knowledge of present-day Gulf society who might like to broaden their understanding of the last days in isolation of the Sultanate of Oman.While broadly contemporary with both "Arabian Sands" and Edward Henderson's "Strange Eventful History", it is much closer to the latter because the author ("foreign minister" to Sultan Said) had a similar insider's view of the activities of government.The sympathetic study of the present Sultan's father is truly poignant in places, but in general this is a fairly dry depiction of life in Oman during eventful years.Perhaps unintentionally, it also gives an amusing portrayal of the tail-end of British colonial influence in the Middle East - an uneasy partnership between Oxbridge mandarins and Oriental potentates.The best accompanying photograph is one of the recently deposed Sultan in the author's English country garden. ... Read more

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Be it ever so crumbly, there's no place like home. Join us on a frightfully funny musical tour of a haunted house, featuring: Welcome Fellow Friends, It's a Haunted House, the Witch's Kitchen, In the Hall of the Mountain King, Beware!, Hobgoblins, and Monsters' Holiday. ... Read more