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.Kuwait Mini Map City Travel Guides > Books > Middle East by: Explorer Publishing April 15, 2007 >>See More Reviews & Details on Kuwait Mini Map |
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.The Marsh Arabs (Penguin Classics) City Travel Guides > Books > Middle East by: Wilfred Thesiger October 25, 2007 While soldiers from the UK occupy the southern territories of Iran, there could be no more salutary book to read than this. This is one of Thesiger’s most affectionate portraits of a people and their environment, almost on a par with his travels in the Empty Quarter. Thesiger was writing just as the oil companies were beginning to exploit the natural resources of the region and the growing heresy of non-Muslims on Arab lands was already a cause for distress, anger and humiliation among the Marsh Arabs. Thesiger was accepted (just) because of his great ability to empathise with and live alongside fiercely proud and intensely religious Arab peoples. Half a century out of date this is still the definite text for any student of human behaviour ... Read More: >>See More Reviews & Details on The Marsh Arabs (Penguin Classics) |
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.Pilgrimage to Mecca City Travel Guides > Books > Middle East by: Lady Evelyn Cobbold, Introduction by William Facey & Miranda Taylor, Footnotes by Professor Ahmad S Turkistani April 29, 2008 While soldiers from the UK occupy the southern territories of Iran, there could be no more salutary book to read than this. This is one of Thesiger’s most affectionate portraits of a people and their environment, almost on a par with his travels in the Empty Quarter. Thesiger was writing just as the oil companies were beginning to exploit the natural resources of the region and the growing heresy of non-Muslims on Arab lands was already a cause for distress, anger and humiliation among the Marsh Arabs. Thesiger was accepted (just) because of his great ability to empathise with and live alongside fiercely proud and intensely religious Arab peoples. Half a century out of date this is still the definite text for any student of human behaviour ... Read More: >>See More Reviews & Details on Pilgrimage to Mecca |
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.Between Extremes: A Journey Beyond Imagination City Travel Guides > Books > Middle East by: Brian Keenan, John McCarthy September 01, 2000 If this was just a travel book, it would be pretty mediocre fare. However, it isn't. The 'extremes' of the title are not merely those of Chile, but the personalities of two very different men welded together by the trauma and ordeal of their shared past. Similarly, the journey is 'beyond imagination' not because of the almost unimaginable landscape of the country, but because they spent hours in captivity, imagining the Journey (and a rather more bizarre 'Yak farm'). How can two such different human beings become so enmeshed and sensitive to the nuances of each other's thoughts and behaviour? Well, read "An Evil Cradling" and "Some Other Rainbow", and *then* read this book. Suddenly, the journey acquires hidden treasures behind ... Read More: >>See More Reviews & Details on Between Extremes: A Journey Beyond Imagination |
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.Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers (Paladin Books) City Travel Guides > Books > Middle East by: Nick Danziger February 22, 1993 I picked this up in Oxfam after seeing an ad for it in the back of Wild Swans, and am really glad I did, because I think it's brilliant. Fair enough, Nick Danziger is no Eric Newby, but he's a decent writer and I quite like his little moments of self-reflection- one has to remember he was 26/27 at the time of writing, and, yes, you can tell he's young (and, at times, hormonally challenged ;) ) from his writing style. That in no way spoils the book for me, though. I found it utterly fascinating and I loved his little drawings and detailed descriptions. In fact I completely disagree with whoever said the descriptive writing was tedious- surely a book of this nature would be nothing without description?! Outwitting officials and ... Read More: >>See More Reviews & Details on Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers (Paladin Books) |
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.Petra: Rose Red City (New Horizons) City Travel Guides > Books > Middle East by: Christian Auge, Jean-Marie Dentzer May 08, 2000 I picked this up in Oxfam after seeing an ad for it in the back of Wild Swans, and am really glad I did, because I think it's brilliant. Fair enough, Nick Danziger is no Eric Newby, but he's a decent writer and I quite like his little moments of self-reflection- one has to remember he was 26/27 at the time of writing, and, yes, you can tell he's young (and, at times, hormonally challenged ;) ) from his writing style. That in no way spoils the book for me, though. I found it utterly fascinating and I loved his little drawings and detailed descriptions. In fact I completely disagree with whoever said the descriptive writing was tedious- surely a book of this nature would be nothing without description?! Outwitting officials and ... Read More: >>See More Reviews & Details on Petra: Rose Red City (New Horizons) |
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.Oman and UAE Insight Guide (Insight Guides) (Insight Guides) City Travel Guides > Books > Middle East by: Apa May 23, 2007 I picked this up in Oxfam after seeing an ad for it in the back of Wild Swans, and am really glad I did, because I think it's brilliant. Fair enough, Nick Danziger is no Eric Newby, but he's a decent writer and I quite like his little moments of self-reflection- one has to remember he was 26/27 at the time of writing, and, yes, you can tell he's young (and, at times, hormonally challenged ;) ) from his writing style. That in no way spoils the book for me, though. I found it utterly fascinating and I loved his little drawings and detailed descriptions. In fact I completely disagree with whoever said the descriptive writing was tedious- surely a book of this nature would be nothing without description?! Outwitting officials and ... Read More: >>See More Reviews & Details on Oman and UAE Insight Guide (Insight Guides) (Insight Guides) |
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.In the Hands of the Taliban City Travel Guides > Books > Middle East by: Yvonne Ridley December 06, 2001 This book exactly described the real face of Taliban and tell the world that the world so called international media has been hijacked by some form of mafia which never tells the truth and will never like people like her who scarified for the truth and lost here carrier >>See More Reviews & Details on In the Hands of the Taliban |
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.Jordan (Globetrotter Travel Pack) City Travel Guides > Books > Middle East by: Moira McCrossan, Hugh Taylor October 26, 2007 This book exactly described the real face of Taliban and tell the world that the world so called international media has been hijacked by some form of mafia which never tells the truth and will never like people like her who scarified for the truth and lost here carrier >>See More Reviews & Details on Jordan (Globetrotter Travel Pack) |
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