According to one legend, Oman was the home of this "Thousand and One Nights" sailor
[DOC] [TLE] Saudi Aramco World : The Sindbad Voyage [PAR] It took the sailor tenderly up in its mouth, carried him to its lair, listened ... and by 
the sixth Century according to one geographer, had established a monopoly of ... 
of the epic of Sindbad the Sailor, as immortalized in A Thousand and One Nights.