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Finding the Atlantis of the Sands

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An edition of The road to Ubar (1998)

The Road to Ubar

Finding the Atlantis of the Sands

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The most fabled city in ancient Arabia was Ubar, described in the Koran as "the many-columned city whose like has not been built in the whole land." But like Sodom and Gomorrah, Ubar was destroyed by God for the sins of its people. Buried in the desert without a trace, it became the "Atlantis of the Sands." The story of its destruction was retold in The Arabian Nights Entertainments (first published in the New World in 1797 as The Oriental Moralist by an ancestor of Nicholas Clapp's).

Over the centuries, many people searched unsuccessfully for the lost city, including the flamboyant Harry St. John Philby, and skepticism grew that there had ever been a real place called Ubar.

Then in the 1980s Nicholas Clapp stumbled on the legend. Poring over medieval manuscripts, he discovered that a slip of the pen in A.D. 1460 had misled generations of explorers. In satellite images he found evidence of ancient caravan routes that were invisible on the ground. Finally he organized two expeditions to Arabia with a team of archaeologists, geologists, space scientists, and adventurers.

After many false starts, dead ends, and weeks of digging, they uncovered the remains of a remarkable walled city with eight towers, thirty-foot walls, and artifacts dating back 4,000 years - they had found Ubar.

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Mariner Books
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English
Pages
352

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Cover of: Road to Ubar
Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the Sands
2000, Souvenir Press Limited
in English
Cover of: Road to Ubar
Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the Sands
1999, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
in English
Cover of: The road to Ubar
The road to Ubar: finding the Atlantis of the sands
1999, Souvenir
in English
Cover of: The Road To Ubar
The Road To Ubar: Finding The Atlantis Of The Sands
July 13, 1999, Books on Tape, Inc.
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Cover of: The Road to Ubar
The Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the Sands
June 1, 1999, Mariner Books
in English
Cover of: Road to Ubar
Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the Sands
1999, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
in English
Cover of: The road to Ubar
The road to Ubar: finding the Atlantis of the sands
1998, Houghton Mifflin
in English

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First Sentence

"Over Iran, December 1980 . . . The small cargo plane flew on into a starry but moonless night."

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Library of Congress
DS247.O63 C55 1999

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Open Library
OL7468840M
Internet Archive
roadtoubarfindin0000clap
ISBN 10
0395957869
ISBN 13
9780395957868
OCLC/WorldCat
41557131
Library Thing
83466
Goodreads
190584

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Over Iran, December 1980 . . . The small cargo plane flew on into a starry but moonless night.
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