Palm Jumeirah
How to Build a Paradise and Lose Your Mind
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Palm Jumeirah: How to Build a Paradise and Lose Your Mind is an irreverent, witty, and darkly insightful deep dive into one of the most surreal human-made places on Earth. Stretching into the Arabian Gulf like a giant sand-drenched hallucination, Dubai’s iconic artificial island is more than just a feat of engineering – it’s a monument to ambition, ego, illusion, and the strange lengths we’ll go to live out our fantasies.
This book drops you onto the fronds of the Palm in the dead of night, where seagulls fight drones, real estate agents spin modern myths, and the beach might just be watching you. Through immersive narrative, biting humor, and a healthy dose of existential dread, we explore the origin, construction, culture, contradictions, and implications of a place that shouldn’t exist – and yet does.
From billion-dollar bulldozers to influencer brunches, from climate anxieties to luxury plumbing crises, Palm Jumeirah: How to Build a Paradise and Lose Your Mind is both travel writing and satire, architectural autopsy and sociological safari. You’ll meet residents who don’t live there, workers who make it all function, and a cast of characters (some real, some questionably real) who’ve made the Palm what it is: a gilded dream floating on borrowed time.
This is not just a book about an island. It’s a story about modern life, and the beautiful, baffling, unsustainable paradise we keep trying to build. Prepare to be fascinated, amused, disturbed, and possibly inspired to cancel your hotel booking.
Perfect for fans of urban oddities, architectural excess, and anyone who’s ever wondered what happens when a city tries to one-up nature – and wins (for now).