Indian Ocean
- The Rough Guide to Zanzibar
- INTRODUCTION This is the finest place I have known in all of Africa . . . An illusive place where nothing is as it seems. I am mesmerised . . . David Livingstone, 1866 Lying in the Indian Ocean, 35km off the coast of mainland Tanzania and six degrees south of the Equator, the archipelago of ZANZIBAR is one of Africas best-known and most enticing destinations.
- From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa
- Drawing on a rich trove of documents, including correspondence not seen for 300 years, this study explores the emergence and growth of a remarkable global trade network operated by Armenian silk merchants from a small outpost in the Persian Empire. Based in New Julfa, Isfahan, in what is now Iran, these merchants operated a network of commercial settlements that stretched from London and Amsterdam to Manila and Acapulco.
- The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today
- THE ROAD IS VERY UNFAIRIN 1992, I TRAVELED TO Kenya because of something I’d read in the newspaper. A report on an international AIDS conference in Amsterdam briefly mentioned research suggesting that long- distance truck drivers might be spreading the disease, by sleeping with prostitutes along the routes they plied between central Africa and the continent’s east coast, on the Indian Ocean.
- The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today
- THE ROAD IS VERY UNFAIRIN 1992, I TRAVELED TO Kenya because of something I’d read in the newspaper. A report on an international AIDS conference in Amsterdam briefly mentioned research suggesting that long- distance truck drivers might be spreading the disease, by sleeping with prostitutes along the routes they plied between central Africa and the continent’s east coast, on the Indian Ocean.
- From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa
- Drawing on a rich trove of documents, including correspondence not seen for 300 years, this study explores the emergence and growth of a remarkable global trade network operated by Armenian silk merchants from a small outpost in the Persian Empire. Based in New Julfa, Isfahan, in what is now Iran, these merchants operated a network of commercial settlements that stretched from London and Amsterdam to Manila and Acapulco.
- The Storm
- PrologueIndian Ocean September 1943The S.S. John Bury shuddered from bow to stern as it plowed through the rolling waters of the Indian Ocean. She was known as a “fast freighter,” designed to accompany warships and used to traveling at a decent clip, but with all boilers going full out the John Bury was moving at a pace she hadn’t seen since her sea trials.
- The Chimpanzee Complex - tome 2 - The Sons of Ares
- In 2035, a strange space capsule has crashed in the Indian Ocean with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin! Who, then, are the men who came back from the 1969 Apollo XI mission?In the second instalment of the science-fiction trilogy, Helen Friedman sets off for the Moon to look for answers. Due to a Russian message, the mission ends up on Mars.
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