Clark, Peter

Emirates diaries : from Sheikhs to Shakespeare / Peter Clark - Surbiton, Surrey: Medina Publishing, c2017. - 271 p. : ill. + map ; 20 cm.

Peter Clark was a romantic. He did not want to be sent to Abu Dhabi in 1988 to run the British Council in the United Arab Emirates, a country which he felt was brash, consumerist and lacking in history. He preferred established countries, steeped in history with ruins and antique architecture.

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Clark, Peter,--Diaries--1939-
United Arab Emirates--Description and travel
Diplomats --Diaries--Great Britain

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