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The Black Tents of Arabia
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My Life Amonst the Bedouins
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Artikel-Nr:
9780710306722
Veröffentl:
2001
Erscheinungsdatum:
02.01.2001
Seiten:
256
Autor:
Carl S Raswan
Gewicht:
590 g
Format:
216x140x24 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Cari S. Raswan
Published originally in 1935, this is an account of twenty-two years spent off and on among the Bedouins of Arabia, migrating, hunting, raiding, starving and feasting and making wonderful desert friendships. The author writes the book for 'the Lord of the land of his fathers,' the King of Arabia 'Abd el-'Aziz ibn Sa'ud el Wahhab and his governors and chiefs in Nejd, Hasa, Jauf, and Kaf and Amir Nuri Sha'lan, his family and tribe of the Ruala. An intimate account of the tradition and ancestors of the Bedouin.
PART ONE THE HEIRS OF ISHMAËL I. The Young Prince of the Ruala II. Faris-"A Friend of God III. The Lone Shepherdess IV. I Meet My Blood-Brother Again. V. Love in the Desert VI. "The Commander of Our Camel-saddles" VII. Death in the Desert VIII. Panther and Ostrich IX. The Nufud X. Sandstorm XI. Days of Ease XII. Camels, Women, Children-and Locusts XIII. Tuëma XIV. The Hunger March XV. Famine and War XVI. A New Lease of Life XVII. The War Goddess XVIII. The Land of Promise XIX. The Ambush XX. "The Cloudi n My Eyes XXI. The "Ark of Ishmaël PART TWO HUNTING AND WARFARE XXII. Ali the Protector" XXIII. Adventures with the Tin-lizzie" XXIV. With the Tai' and Shammar Bedouins XXV. Honour Among Thieves XXVI. The Stealing of the Mare" XXVII. Anaga-the Falcon XXVIII. The Young Gazelle Buck