Highlights of the Society's Collections & further reading & resources

The Society's Foyle Reading Room has over 500 items relating Oman, as well as modern guide books covering the region. The following are available for reference in the Foyle Reading Room.

For information, please visit the Society’s on-line catalogue.

Or visit the Foyle Reading Room in person, where a member of the Collections team will be able to assist.

  Books/Pamphlets

• Wilfred Thesiger: the life of the great explorer, Alexander Maitland. 2006
  (mg BG/635B)
• A modern history of Oman: formation of the State since 1920. Francis Owtram. 2004. (mg 356L)
• Oman & the United Arab Emirates. Lonely Planet. 2000. (mg FRR/3E)
• Arab Gulf States. Lonely Planet, 1996. (mg FRR/3E)
• Oman (World Bibliographical Series), F.A. Clements, 1994. (mg 182G-K)
• Atlantis of the sands: the search for the lost city of Ubar, Ranulph Fiennes, 1992. (mg 349G)
• Travels in Oman: on the track of the early explorers, Ward, 1987.
  (mg 350F)
• The Wahiba Sands: a description of the Wahiba Sands of Oman, Brunsden & Cooke, 1986. (mg 350G)
• Oman in the Twentieth Century: political foundations of an emerging state, Peterson, 1978. (mg 350F)
• Where soldiers fear to tread, Ranulph Fiennes, 1975. (mg 350F)
• Said bin Sultan Ruler of Oman and Zanzibar: his place in the history, Rudolph Said-Ruete, 1929. (mg 664E)
• On the border of the great desert, a journey in Oman, Samuel Barrett Miles. 1910. (mg X.178.21)
• Tuhfat al-Ayan. History of Oman Al-Salimi, Al Salimi. 1350. (mg N07/40G)

  Maps

• Oman/U.A.E. International Travel Map, 1:1 400 000, 2003.
  (mr Oman G.14)
• The Sultanate of Oman, 1:1 300 000, 1992. (mr Oman G.11)
• Sultanate of Oman, [1:15 000 000], [1975]. (mr Oman S/G.1)
• Musandam Peninsular, RGS, [1:22 500], 1973. (mr Oman S.11)
• S.E. Arabia, 1:500 000, 1955-64.
  (mr Oman G.2)
• South East Arabia from traverses by Wilfred Thesiger, 1945-1950, 1:1 250 000, 1951. (mr Oman G.1)
• Part of South East Arabia from a route traverse, Bertram Thomas, 1:2 000 000, 1929. (mr Oman S/Div.3)
• Sketch map to illustrate “some excursions in Oman” by Sir Percy Cox, 1:1 000 000, 1925. (mr Oman S/S.1)
• Map of Oman from route traverses & other information by S.B. Miles, 1:2 000 000, 1910. (mr Oman S/Div.2)
• Sketch map of Wadi Tyin in Oman by S.B.Miles, 1896. (mr Oman S/D.2) 
• Map of Oman showing distribution of the Principal Tribes, E.C. Ross, [1:1 000 000], [1890]. (mr Oman S.3)
• Sketch of the Kuria-Muria Islands to illustrate Dr Hulton’s paper, [1:2 724 480], 1842. (mr Oman S/S.2)
• Map of Oman by J.R.Wellsted, [1:1 450 000], 1838. (mr Oman S/Div.1)
• Map of Oman by J.R.Wellsted, [1:1 000 000], [1835]. (mr Oman Div.2)
  

Copies of selected maps  may be purchased as prints from the Foyle Reading Room. For more information please contact enquiries@rgs.org or +44 (0)20 7591 3044.

  Picture Library Material
Highlights include photographs by:

• S. B. Miles 
• Sir Percy Cox 
• Lt Col Sir R Hay
• Capt B Thomas

Prints of photographs and other images can be purchased from the Society’s Picture Library website, for more information log on to www.rgs.org/images and keyword search for historical and contemporary photographs.

  Journal Articles

• The Oman Wahiba Sands Project by R.W. Dutton & N. de N. Winser.
  (Geographical Journal Vol.153, No.1, March 1987, pp. 48-58)
• The Musandam (Northern Oman) Expedition 1971/1972 by N.L. Falcon.
  (Geographical Journal Vol.139, No.1, Feb 1973, pp. 1-19)
• The Shihuh of Northern Oman: a contribution to cultural ecology by Walter Dostal. (Geographical Journal Vol.138, No.1, March 1972, pp. 1-7)
• The Oman question: the background to the political geography of South-East Arabia by J.C. Wilkinson.
  (G.J. Vol.137, No.3, Sept. 1971, pp.361-371)
• Desert Borderlands of Oman by Wilfred Thesiger. (Geographical Journal Vol.116, No.4/6, Oct-Dec 1950, pp. 137-168)
• Some excursions in Oman by Percy Cox. (Geographical Journal Vol.66, No.3, Sept. 1925, pp. 193-221)
• On the border of the Great Desert: a journey in Oman by S.B. Miles.
  (Geographical Journal Vol.36, No.2, Aug. 1910, pp159-178)
• Narrative of a journey into the interior of Oman, in 1835, by Lieutenant Wellsted. (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society Vol.7, 1837, pp.102-113)

  Journal Maps
Several Oman maps from the Society’s publications are available for purchase. For more information, please contact enquiries@rgs.org or + 44 (0)20 7591 3044.

• GMap of Dhofar and the Gara-Range from a survey by Iman Sherif, Khan Bahadur, Bent, J.T., 1895, £20 (696)
• Part of South East Arabia fro a route traverse by Bertram Thomas, 1928, £40 (1223)
• Musandam Peninsula with geological sketch map, tracks of dhow & approaches to Al Maskar. 1973, £20 (1456)
• Al Maskar (The Gap). Tacheometric Survey on the Maqlab (Isthmus) by the R.G.S. Musandam Expedition 1971-72., 1973, £20 (1457)
• Survey of part of the South East Coast of Arabia by S.B.Haines, Commander, Indian Navy. 1845, £40 (2039)

  Further Reading

• Oman & the U.A.E., Insight Guides, 2007. ISBN: 9789812586469
• Oman, Bradt Travel Guide, Darke & Shield, 2006. ISBN: 9781841621685
• Oman Off-road Explorer, Explorer Group, 2006. ISBN: 9789768182487
• In the service of the Sultan, Ian Gardiner, 2006. ISBN: 9781844154678
• A reformer on the throne: Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Al Said, Plekhanov, 2004. ISBN: 9781900724708.

  Internet resources & online travel reviews

• Oman, Ministry of Tourism
• Country profile: Oman, BBC
  Kate Silverton’s heaven on earth (Telegraph, 28 July 2008)
• Lulu Guiness: when a girl really needs Oman (Telegraph, 20 May 2008)
• Spa woman in Oman (Times online, 19 December 2007)
• Chasing shadows in Oman (Times online, 16 December 2007)
• Oman: the turban warrior (Times online, 29 January 2006)
  

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