num_pages: 582
description: At Riyadh, in 1902, the desert raider Ibn Saud tossed the head of the town governor from a parapet down to his followers below... thus was the kingdom of Saudi Arabia founded. Two-thirds the size of India, it holds a quarter of the world's oil and has six times more overseas assets than the USA. A land of desert unchanged for centuries, with the wealth and power to make the world tremble... The domain of the House of Saud.
language: English
title: The House of Saud
titlecomplete: The House of Saud
characters: Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Ibn Saud
genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography
ratings_count: 65
places: Saudi Arabia
publisher: Pan Macmillan