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Author of The Gulf States and Oman, Australian photojournalist Christine Osborne draws inspiration from her striking images of the Arab states in a volume of short stories featuring imagined characters from a bygone age. Based on meticulous research and memories of people met at the time, we are introduced to Wajid the pearl diver, Ahmed the fisherman and Aisha of the benevolent date palm. Even Aziz, a cat who dreams of living in the Queen of ...

A pictorial record of the United Arab Emirates in the early days of development in the 1970s.

Unique images of Oman taken following the explosion of development which began with the accession to power of Sultan Qaboos bin Said in 1970.

Unique images of QATAR examining the impact of oil on the Arab States of the Gulf by Christine Osborne, author of The Gulf States and Oman (1977)

The remarkable story of how an Australian nurse became an award-winning travel writer and acclaimed photographer working alone in some of the most offbeat places on earth. This was trailblazing travel in a time well before the internet: before travel rating websites advised where to stay and before mass tourism disturbed the culture of many countries. In 1979 Christine Osborne travelled with the Buckingham Palace Press Corps to cover Her Majes...