Dubai - The Story of the World's Fastest City

Today, Dubai is a city of shimmering skyscrapers attracting thousands of tourists every year. Yet just sixty years ago Dubai's population scraped a living by picking dates, diving for pearls, or sailing in wooden dhows to trade with Iran and India.

Dubai is everything the rest of the Arab world is not. Until recently it was the fastest-growing city in the world, with an economy whose growth outpaced China's while luring more tourists than all of India. The city has become a metaphor for the lush life, where the wealthy mingle in gilded splendour and luxury cars fill the streets, yet it is also beset by a backwash of bad design, environmental degradation and controversial labour practices. Dubai tells its unique story.

About the author

Jim Krane

Summary

A bestselling exploration of the fascinating city-state.

Foreword

A bestselling exploration of the fascinating city-state.

Report

Dubai examines this small emirate with admirable even-handedness and good humour... Krane also writes movingly of the conditions of the Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi workers who have built Dubai. James Drummond Financial Times

Product details

• Authors: Jim Krane, Jim (Author) Krane, Krane Jim
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2015
• EAN: 9781782397601
• ISBN: 978-1-78239-760-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 345 g
• Illustrations: w. plates.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Social History, TRAVEL / Middle East / General, Middle East, HISTORY / Middle East / Arabian Peninsula, Travel writing, Social and cultural history, Middle Eastern history, Arabian Peninsula, General and world history, Travel and holiday