From Pearls to Oil
How the Oil Industry Came to the United Arab Emirates
David Heard
Gerlach Press
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From Pearls to Oil is a testament of the challenges contended by extraordinary men who initiated the search for oil in the United Arab Emirates in the years between the two World Wars.
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