- Commissioned in 1903 as a six-month project to produce a "convenient and portable handbook" for British diplomats, John Gordon Lorimer's Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia covered 5,000 pages when it finally emerged 12 years later, in six giant volumes. http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-30344377 4 comments history
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