The Last of the Bedu

In Search of the Myth

Michael Asher (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

1996
Viking (Verlag)
978-0-670-83770-0 (ISBN)

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The view of the Arab as a hospitable, noble camel herder living the simple life has been nurtured strongly. Michael Asher first encountered the reality of the Bedu during his work as a teacher in Saudi Arabia - they bore little resemblance to the myth of Western legend.

The view of the Arab as a hospitable, honest, wild yet noble camel herder living the simple unfettered life in his black tent has been nurtured so strongly in our own culture that the myth has continued to outshine the reality. Michael Asher first encountered the reality of the Bedu during his work as a teacher in Saudi Arabia - they bore little resemblance to the myth of the noble camel herder of popular Western legend. This book is his search for the Bedu of the past and his description of the Bedu of the present throughout the whole of the Arab world.

Michael Asher has served in the Parachute Regiment and the SAS Regiment. The author of twenty-four books and presenter of six TV documentaries, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1996. For his writing and travels, he has been awarded the Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Medal, the Mungo Park Medal and the Ness Award. He lives in Nairobi, Kenya.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.10.1996
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	648 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Bildbände ► Naher Osten
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-670-83770-9 / 0670837709
ISBN-13	978-0-670-83770-0 / 9780670837700
Zustand	Neuware