John O. (buzzby) - , reviewed on 2/7/2009 + 6062 more book reviews

The author produced "World's Funniest Animals" type shows for TV, so he makes events sound more thrilling than they really are. For example, he tells us that it was thought that a certain Arabian explorer had never been to Mecca, but he came upon "tantalizing evidence" that he had - an old photo of him, which turned out to be from Mecca, California, but he would spend a page discussing this. Instead of calling this the "Lost City of Ubar", it might have been better called "The Lost Village of what could possibly have been what the ancients called Ubar". He's a pretty good writer, but it's more a travel book than an archaeology book.

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