Dubai Story Of The Worlds Fastest City by Jim Krane

Dubai Story Of The Worlds Fastest City

Jim Krane

356 pages paperback 2009

4 editions

nonfiction history politics travel informative medium-paced
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In the 1950s, Dubai’s population of a few thousand scraped a living in a near waterless desert by picking dates, diving for pearls, or sailing in wooden dhows to trade with Iran and India. The town was as poor as any village in Somalia or the Su...

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