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Investigating the historical background of the Arabian Nights voyages of Sinbad, a noted explorer follows the ancient Arab sea routes to the Orient aboard a replica of an early Arabian wooden ship
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Tim Severin was a British explorer who postulated that the ancient Omanis of northwest Africa used to sail their “sewn plank boats” (known as Dhows) far across the Indian Ocean.
He challenged the Eurocentric view that both he and I had grown up with—namely that the Indian Ocean was a void and was only discovered when Europeans like the Portuguese, Dutch, and British arrived in their large sailing ships.
Severin believed that the Omanis (the people of the Sindbad stories) were building and sailing dhows as far back as the beginning of the Common Era—and to prove his theory, he…
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