A couple of weeks back I posted snippets from an old book on my instagram account and a lot of people wanted to know what book it was and where they could get it from. So I decided not only to post about the book but also scan it all and make it available to download.
The book is a children’s book called Hamad the Diver and was published back in 1967. The story is about an Arab pearl diver living in Kuwait called Hamad. The story doesn’t mention specifically if Hamad was Kuwaiti or not but we do find out he is poor as many Kuwaitis were back then and that he was married with children. The second story taking place in the meantime is about a rich Iraqi girl called Fatima living in Basra whose father is trying to get her married. I don’t want to spoil the story too much but eventually, Hamad and Fatima end up getting married.
If you want to check out the book then you can download it from this link.
Update: The missing pages have been uploaded
22 replies on “Hamad the Diver – 1967”
Pages 22-25 are not uploaded
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fixed!
thanks!
You just spoiled the story by giving away the ending!
What’s the morale of the story? I read it but what’s the point? I don’t get it.
Just something for a kid to read and fall asleep I guess? Most children’s stories do have a moral at the end but not necessarily.
Be brave and strong, and work hard towards a goal?
Well, Hamad was married with kids and poor, his wife then dies and he ends up marrying a richer, younger and hotter wife. Hamad ends up a lot happier and so do his kids because they can now get whatever they want.
So I guess the moral of the story is that money brings happiness.
Font looks too modern for 1967.
Helvetica came out in 1957
Ever watched the documentary about it Mark? Pretty cool
Thank you very much Mark for this uploading.
Thank Mark. Really appreciate you uploading this.
Man I remember that but I can’t recall if I actually had it or if I read it back at school probably in the library.
Can you please upload more old books
We were studying this story in1981 in secondary school. It was a part of the english studies. There were more stories also like: Down town, Down the river, Round the world in 80 days and more, they were so interesting at that time and still so for the memories for those who studied and read them.
My Grandfather wrote the book
I found some info on it!
Hamad the Diver: Stage 2 (500 Word Vocabulary) (Longman Structural Readers)
ISBN-13: 9780582537200
ISBN-10: 0582537207
Author: Nayef Kharma
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson English Language Teaching
Published: September 1967
https://isbnsearch.org/isbn/0582537207
I. Went to bay one if possible ?
Is there anyone knows where i can buy this book from ?