H. St. John Philby and Ubar

[Dave Monroe]

Can't access the link here, but try ...

http://www.sciam.com/1998/1198issue/1198wynn.html

http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/exhibits/ubar/ubar_0.html

Here's a reference from the SciAm article ...

Philby, Harry St. John.  "An Account of Exploration
   in the Great South Desert of Arabia."  Geographical
   Journal, Vol. 81, No. 1 (January 1933): 1-26

And here's some reviews of ...

Clapp, Nicholas.  The Road to Ubar: Finding the
   Atlantis of the Sands.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
   1998.

http://www.mercatormag.com/305_ubar.html

http://arabculture.about.com/culture/arabculture/library/weekly/blubar.htm

http://www.ala.org/booklist/v94/adult/fe1/27clapp.html

Harry St. John "Abdullah" Philby, by the way, was the
father of the notorious Kim Philby.  And note that the
excavation site is Shisur (cf. Vheissu).  Thanks, I
wasn't aware of this ...

--- calbert at tiac.net wrote:
> 
> a possible clue re: Vheissu & Stencil
> 
> http://www.scaruffi.com/travel/ubar.html
> 
> anyone?



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