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Road to Ubar
de Nicholas Clapp
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- First
- Estado
- Very Good, slight wear and yellowing of pages,
- ISBN 10
- 0395957869
- ISBN 13
- 9780395957868
- Librería
-
Barrington, Illinois, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1998. First Mariner. Trade Paperback. Very Good, slight wear and yellowing of pages,.
Sinopsis
The most fabled city in ancient Arabia was Ubar, described in the Koran as "the many-columned city whose like has not been built in the entire land." But like Sodom and Gomorrah, Ubar was destroyed by God for the sins of its people. Buried in the desert without a trace, it became known as "the Atlantis of the Sands." Over the centuries, many searched for it unsuccessfully, including Lawrence of Arabia, and skepticism grew that there had ever been a real place called Ubar. Then in the 1980s Nicholas Clapp stumbled on the legend. Poring over ancient manuscripts, he discovered that a slip of the pen in a.d. 1460 had misled generations of explorers. In satellite images he found evidence of ancient caravan routes that were invisible from the ground. Finally he organized two expeditions to Arabia with a team of archaeologists, geologists, space scientists, and adventurers. After many false starts, dead ends, and weeks of digging, they uncovered a remarkable walled city with eight towers, thi
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Detalles
- Librería
- Rocking Chair Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1603259
- Título
- Road to Ubar
- Autor
- Nicholas Clapp
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Trade Paperback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good, slight wear and yellowing of pages,
- Edición
- First Mariner
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0395957869
- ISBN 13
- 9780395957868
- Editorial
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston, Ma
- Fecha de publicación
- 1998
- Páginas
- 342
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Sobre el vendedor
Rocking Chair Books
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Barrington, Illinois
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- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
