Four Treasures Reference Database
Record No. 26410
Pearling in the Arabian Gulf | A Kuwaiti Memoir
Book
al-Shamlan, S.M. (2000) Pearling in the Arabian Gulf | A Kuwaiti Memoir. London, London Centre of Arab Studies, 190 pp.
ISBN/ISSN: 1900404192 | Sinkankas/Born No.: NIS/NIB | RWHL
gems, pearl, pearling, Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrain
Born in Kuwait in 1926, into a distinguished Kuwaiti family of pearl merchants and seafarers, Saif Marzooq al- Shamlan describes the final generation of the pearling industry from 1900 to the slump of the 1930s, when the development of the Japanese cultured pearl led to economic disaster for the people of the Gulf.