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Grogan, Derek Hart, and Dr. Armand Hammer all took great personal interest in the project.

Additional expedition sponsors were Airwork, Limited (and John Fulford); American Airlines; Avis Car Rental; British Petroleum Oman; Desert Line / Sheikh Ahmed Farid; DHL Oman; Oman's General Telecom Organization; Genetco; IBM / Gulf Business Machines; Land Rover / Mohsid Haider Darwish; Matrah Cold Stores; Oman's Ministry of Information and Ministry of National Heritage and Culture; Nortech; Oman Aviation Services; Oman National Insurance; Oman United Agencies; Petroleum Development Oman; Rowntree Mackintosh; Royal Insurance of Oman; Royal Oman Police; Salalah Holiday Inn; Smith Kline Beecham; Suhail and Saud Bahwan; Thomson CSF; United Media Services; and W. J. Towell (and Kamal Sultan).

After the expedition, filmmaking colleagues Rob Bogdanoff, Jennifer Dolce, Harrison Engle, Irwin Rosten, David Saxon, Terry Sanders, and Mel Stuart gave of their time and valued advice. Further archaeological guidance was provided by Artemis and Martha Joukowsky, of the American Center of Oriental Research and Brown University's Center for Old World Art and Archaeology, respectively. And friends Ed and Cynthia Lasker became so intrigued by Ubar that they traveled to Oman to see the once-wicked city for themselves.

Years ago, good friends Bob Ivey and Jill Bowman were the first to suggest that if anything ever came of the Ubar project, I should write a book. A lawyer, Bob acted as my agent and recommended the book to Houghton Mifflin's Harry Foster, who, working with Peg Anderson, edited this manuscript and saw it through to publication. I thank them for their great care and deft touch. And I thank Kristen Mellen and Anne Chalmers for their admirable realization of the book's graphics.

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Index

NOTE: page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Front

I. Myth

1. Unicorns

2. The Sands of Their Desire

3. Arabia Felix

4. The Flight of the Challenger

5. The Search Continues

6. The Inscription of the Crows

7. The Rawi's Tale

8. Should You Eat Something That Talks to You?

9. The City of Brass

10. The Singing Sands

II. Expedition

11. Reconnaissance

12. The Edge of the Known World

13. The Vale of Remembrance

14. The Empty Quarter

15. What the Radar Revealed

16. City of Towers

17. Red Springs

18. Seasons in the Land of Frankincense

III. The Rise and Fall of Ubar

19. Older Than'Ad

20. The Incense Trade

21. Khuljan's City

22. City of Good and Evil

23. Sons and Thrones Are Destroyed

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