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Atlantis of the Sands: The Search for the Lost City of Ubar
 
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Atlantis of the Sands: The Search for the Lost City of Ubar (Hardcover)

by Ranulph, Sir Fiennes (Author)
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This is the account of Sir Ranulph Fiennes' 24-year search for the lost city of Ubar, the Koranic version of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Arabian Desert. The existence of Ubar has been reported by many travellers over the centuries including Marco Polo, Ibn Batuta and Bertram Thomas. Having searched for the site for many years, Sir Ranulph teamed up with an American film-maker in 1968 to track down the likely site. A complete excavation is being carried out with the support of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos of Oman in the remote Bedouin village of Shisr and will take up to ten years. The author's other books include his autobiography "Living Dangerously" and "The Feather Men".

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4.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating, Jun 16 2004
By L. Last "Movie Buff" (The realy GREAT lake state) - See all my reviews
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This book was my introduction to Ranulph Fiennes. I have been interested in the lost city of Ubar since reading about it in T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars. As a university student in 1973, I actually did some research into the mystery and even got so far as to trying to find funding to look for the city (it was to be my Graduate work in Archeology). That didn't work out so, many years later when I heard that the city had finally been found and that the explorer had written a book on the search, I immediately bought it and read, with delight, that someone had achieved my dream!

The book is well written and informative with good discriptions of the search, the people involved, and the logistics of the campaign. It also serves as a nice introduction to Mr, Fiennes. In both his fiction and non-fiction work he is an intelligent writer who always gives the reader something to "chew" on. I have now read seven of his books and, while this is not his best, it is still an informative and interesting read.

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