In 1763, the Dutch ship Amstelveen set sail from the Dutch East Indies for Muscat, Oman. Through a combination of human error and rough seas, the ship never mad

Richly illustrated reconstruction - equal parts social history, anthropology, and survival chronicle - of the journey of 30 castaways from the Dutch ship Amstel

Thirty seamen survived the shipwreck of a Dutch East Indiaman on the south coast of Oman. They walked hundreds of kilometers in the burning sun, barefoot and al

The remarkable account of Daniel Saunders 18th century shipwreck on the south coast of Arabia. New to this edition are place-specific modern colour photographs.

"This splendid work of scholarship . . . sums up with economy and power all that the written record so far deciphered has to tell about the ancient and compleme