Contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; Biographical; Early Writings; The Dramatist; The Novelist; The Short Story Writer; The Writer of Fairy Tales; The Essayist; The Biographer; The Journalist; Conclusion; Notes; English and Original Czech Titles; Bibliography; Index.
Saif Marzooq al-Shamlan comes from a distinguished Kuwaiti family of pearl merchants and seafarers. He worked for the Ministry of Information and has presented television programmes on the history of Kuwait. Peter Clark has translated several books from Arabic. He worked for the British Council for thirty-one years, mostly in the Arab world, and is now a freelance translator and consultant on Middle East cultural affairs.
'Pearling in the Arabian Gulf is a fascinating and involving autobiography...' -- The Midwest Book Review, January 2002. "This book is a personal journey ... a fascinating discussion. Al-Shamlan reveals the depth of his uncompromising commitment to Kuwaiti pearling as a noble tradition, and it is this that drives the book." -- Steve Mullins, International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. 14 No. 1, June 2002. "The felicitous combination of the author's breezy, rather gossipy style and the fidelity of a translation that allows the pattern of the underlying Arabic to show through, makes this an eminently readable book that will appeal not only to those with special interests, but also to the reader seeking no more than a rattling good yarn." -- James Taylor, Asian Affairs, November 2003.
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