In the Wake of the Dhow: The Arabian Gulf and Oman
In the Wake of the Dhow: The Arabian Gulf and Oman
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追随单桅帆船：阿拉伯湾和阿曼
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2002
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D. Agiùs
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D. Agiùs
阿拉伯单桅帆船以其独特的特征，是海湾、红海和印度洋最令人回味的形象之一。在16世纪至18世纪葡萄牙人和荷兰人的时代，大型货运三角帆船代表了从地中海一直延伸到中国的繁荣贸易。当珍珠业在19世纪和20世纪初达到顶峰时，数百艘珍珠三角帆船被积极雇用，运载着数千名水手潜水寻找最好的珍珠，这是西方列强非常渴望的商品。在战争时期，独桅帆船是宏伟的战斗船只，并与这些沃茨中如此盛行的海盗行为有关。这本书是在九年的时间里对阿拉伯湾和阿曼的200多名造船工人和海员进行采访的产物。本书将第一手资料与过去70年中关于独桅帆船和阿拉伯航海的文献进行了比较，其中大部分只是技术性的。在发现石油之前，独桅帆船是该地区繁荣的重要因素，我们在本书中发现了每种独桅帆船的地理条件和历史语言背景，其作为货物、珍珠潜水、海盗和奴隶船以及航海社区如何与独桅帆船世界互动。
The Arabian dhow, with its characteristic features, is one of the most evocative images of the Gulf, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. The great cargo dhows represented a flourishing trade which stretched from the Mediterranean up to China in the time of the Portuguese and the Dutch from the 16th to the 18th centuries. When the pearling industry was at its height in the 19th and early 20th centuries, hundreds of pearling dhows were actively employed, carrying thousands of seamen diving for the finest pearls, a commodity much sought by the Western powers. In times of war, the dhows were magnificent fighting vessels and associated with the piracy so prevalent in these waters. This book is a product of over two hundred interviews with shipwrights and seamen in the Arabian Gulf and Oman over a period of nine years. It compares information given firsthand with the literature already written on the dhow and on Arab seafaring in the past 70 years, much of which was simply technical.Documenting the dhow as an important element in the prosperity of the area before the discovery of oil, we find in this book the geographical conditions and the historical-linguistical background of each dhow-type, the life-pattern in its role as cargo, pearl-diving, pirate and slaving vessel and also how the sea faring communities interacted with the dhow world.