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  1. Amid Shifting Sands : Ancient History, Explosive Growth, Climate Change and the Uncertain Future of the United Arab
    James Gordon Nelson (Author) , Amer Rghei
    €22.99

    The United Arab Emirates are renowned for their enormous production of oil and the rise of great cities like Dubai and Abu Dhabi, which attract millions of tourists annually. It is as if the great aridity of the country did not exist. Yet the UAE is essentially a vast desert, thinly peopled for thousands of years by nomads, grazing sheep, camels and growing a few crops in great oases like Al Ain and Liwa. 

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