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• catalog abstract "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 whole 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 the "Atlantis of the Sands." The story of its destruction was retold in The Arabian Nights Entertainments (first published in the New World in 1797 as The Oriental Moralist by an ancestor of Nicholas Clapp's). Over the centuries, many people searched unsuccessfully for the lost city, including the flamboyant Harry St. John Philby, 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 medieval 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 on 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 the remains of a remarkable walled city with eight towers, thirty-foot walls, and artifacts dating back 4,000 years - they had found Ubar.".
• catalog contributor b10627511.
• catalog coverage "Ubar (Extinct city)".
• catalog created "1998.".
• catalog date "1998".
• catalog date "1998.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-328) and index.".
• catalog description "Myth -- Unicorns -- The Sands of Their Desire -- Arabia Felix -- The Flight of the Challenger -- The Search Continues -- The Inscription of the Crows -- The Rawi's Tale -- Should You Eat Something That Talks to You? -- The City of Brass -- The Singing Sands -- Expedition -- Reconnaissance -- The Edge of the Known World -- The Vale of Remembrance -- The Empty Quarter -- What the Radar Revealed -- City of Towers -- Red Springs -- Seasons in the Land of Frankincense -- The Rise and Fall of Ubar -- Older Than 'Ad -- The Incense Trade -- Khuljan's City -- City of Good and Evil -- Sons and Thrones Are Destroyed -- Epilogue: Hud's Tomb -- Key Dates in the History of Ubar -- A Glossary of People and Places -- Further Reflections on al-Kisai's "The Prophet Hud."".
• catalog description "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 whole 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 the "Atlantis of the Sands." The story of its destruction was retold in The Arabian Nights Entertainments (first published in the New World in 1797 as The Oriental Moralist by an ancestor of Nicholas Clapp's). Over the centuries, many people searched unsuccessfully for the lost city, including the flamboyant Harry St. John Philby, 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 medieval 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 on 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 the remains of a remarkable walled city with eight towers, thirty-foot walls, and artifacts dating back 4,000 years - they had found Ubar.".
• catalog extent "viii, 342 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Road to Ubar.".
• catalog identifier "039587596X".
• catalog isFormatOf "Road to Ubar.".
• catalog issued "1998".
• catalog issued "1998.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Boston : Houghton Mifflin,".
• catalog relation "Road to Ubar.".
• catalog spatial "Oman Ubar (Extinct city)".
• catalog spatial "Ubar (Extinct city)".
• catalog subject "939/.49 21".
• catalog subject "DS247.O63 C55 1998".
• catalog subject "Excavations (Archaeology) Oman Ubar (Extinct city)".
• catalog tableOfContents "Myth -- Unicorns -- The Sands of Their Desire -- Arabia Felix -- The Flight of the Challenger -- The Search Continues -- The Inscription of the Crows -- The Rawi's Tale -- Should You Eat Something That Talks to You? -- The City of Brass -- The Singing Sands -- Expedition -- Reconnaissance -- The Edge of the Known World -- The Vale of Remembrance -- The Empty Quarter -- What the Radar Revealed -- City of Towers -- Red Springs -- Seasons in the Land of Frankincense -- The Rise and Fall of Ubar -- Older Than 'Ad -- The Incense Trade -- Khuljan's City -- City of Good and Evil -- Sons and Thrones Are Destroyed -- Epilogue: Hud's Tomb -- Key Dates in the History of Ubar -- A Glossary of People and Places -- Further Reflections on al-Kisai's "The Prophet Hud."".
• catalog title "The road to Ubar : finding the Atlantis of the sands / Nicholas Clapp.".
• catalog type "text".