Books published by publisher Arabesque Travel

With the sublime Museum of Islamic Arts and the dazzling skyline of West Bay, Doha is a modern city par excellence.The Doha and Qatar travel guide includes the attractions of Doha and takes you beyond the glitz to Qatar’s abandoned historic villages and sweeping dunes of the ‘inland sea’. With selected hotel and restaurant listings, cultural hints and a comprehensive history chapter, this guide gets you to the heart of Qatar.Learn how to handle the etiquette of coffee in Qatar and stroll along Al Corniche from the National Museum towards the rainbow coloured skyscrapers of Doha’s West Bay at dusk.

The guide to the UNESCO sites and other sites associated with Frankincense in Dhofar Oman. Part of the most famous trio of Gifts ever given, Frankincense is an alluring and magical product. The tree is found in Oman’s southern Governorate of Dhofar and this book guides the reader to the locations associated with it and illustrates the History of Frankincense.Because you may visit Dhofar only once in your life, you can use this as your guide to its most famous product. The book is available as a Kindle with full Colour photography, a full Colour Paperback and a Paperback with Black & White images that is ideal to use on your own tour.The illustrated Chapters include Biology Medicine History Wadi Dawkah UNESCO Site Hanun Ash Shisr UNESCO Site Andhur Mughsayl Khawr Rawri & Samharam UNESCO Site Ayn Hamran Fort Al Balid UNESCO Site

The guide for your visit to the UNESCO sites in Dhofar Oman associated with Frankincense in Dhofar Oman, and several other locations also associated with this famed product.Part of the most famous trio of Gifts ever given, Frankincense is an alluring and magical product. The tree is found in Oman’s southern Governorate of Dhofar and this book guides the reader to the locations associated with it and illustrates the History of Frankincense.The book is available as a Kindle with full Colour photography, a full Colour Paperback and a Paperback with Black & White images (this version) that is ideal to use on your own tour.The illustrated Chapters include Biology & Medicine, History, Wadi Dawkah UNESCO Site , Hanun, Ash Shisr (Ubar) UNESCO Site, Andhur, Mughsayl Khawr Rawri & Samharam UNESCO Site Ayn Hamran Fort, Al Balid UNESCO Site.Because you may visit Dhofar only once in your life, you can use this as your guide to its most famous product or simply increase your knowledge of Frankincense.

This guidebook with colour illustrations, The Land of Frankincense, give a history, biology and site guide to Dhofar in Oman’s most famous product. For thousands of years Frankincense resin was an economic engine from Arabia. Sourced from the coast of incense of southern Arabia the resin became the gift given to Gods, Kings and Jesus.The books explains the Frankincense tree’s biology, its history and the locations in Dhofar most associated with the tree and its trade. These include four UNESCO World Heritage Sites.The book is available as a full Colour paperback that is ideal to use on your own tour. Written by the author of the 2017 updated Bradt Guide to Oman, the two books will inform and guide the user through the little known Land of Frankincense.