Oman

Coastlines, mountain journeys and the coming of the telegraph shape this collection of maps and prints of Oman. Vandermaelen...

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Coastlines, mountain journeys and the coming of the telegraph shape this collection of maps and prints of Oman. Vandermaelen's regional atlas sheets lead on to the Royal Geographical Society map of James Wellsted's journey and later sketch maps of Muscat, its highlands and the Musandam peninsula, with a Cold War escape map carrying the sequence into the twentieth century. The prints show Elphinstone Inlet, a telegraph cable being landed at Muscat, local sailing vessels and military action on the Gulf coast, and a national flag plate adds a later emblem.

Coastlines, mountain journeys and the coming of the telegraph shape this collection of maps and prints of Oman. Vandermaelen's regional atlas sheets lead on to the Royal Geographical Society map of James Wellsted's journey and later sketch maps of Muscat, its highlands and the Musandam peninsula, with a Cold War escape map carrying the sequence into the twentieth century. The prints show Elphinstone Inlet, a telegraph cable being landed at Muscat, local sailing vessels and military action on the Gulf coast, and a national flag plate adds a later emblem.