A Diamond in the Desert: Behind the Scenes in Abu Dhabi, the World's Richest City

Get a closer look at this glittering, oil-rich city in a "revealing travelogue through the capital of the United Arab Emirates" (Publishers Weekly).

Jo Tatchell first arrived in the city of Abu Dhabi as a child in 1974, when the discovery of oil was quickly turning a small fishing town into a growing international community. Decades later, this Middle Eastern capital is a dizzying metropolis of ten-lane highways and overlapping languages, and its riches and emphasis on cultural developm...