Product Details
Simon & Schuster UK, June 2010
Trade Paperback, 272 pages
ISBN-10: 1847376746
ISBN-13: 9781847376749
Description
Boom town, modern marvel, commercial hub, where middle-east meets wealthy west, playground for tourists, crawling with ex-pats, built by Indians, owned by Arabs, Dubai has risen from next to nothing to an awful lot in little more than thirty years. How? And can it go on? Has it sold itself to the corporate dollar? Is it anything more than a mall in the desert? Will the sands return? Joe Bennett goes to find out.
Scoop, July 13, 2011
...in Auckland or other cities, so we?re bringing the authors here to Taup?.? Travel writer and Columnist, Joe Bennett, is the first visiting author who will be in Taupo on Sunday 24 July. The following weekend on Sunday 31 July, novelist ...
Lonely Planet, December 24, 2010
...excerpts from books about the exploration of Australian. It was often a decidedly fraught, dangerous and tough experience. Hello Dubai – Joe Bennett captures the essentially weirdness of what has to be the world’s weirdest big city, for ...
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