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Camels in the Sky
V. Muzafer Ahamed
其他書名
Travels in Arabia
出版Oxford University Press, 2018-10-11
主題Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
ISBN01990952569780199095254
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ijJ7DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Journeying from the green, rain-soaked Kerala into the amphitheatre of the Sun, our traveller-journalist finds that there is no better metaphor than the desert to instil the lessons of life and death, love and hatred, thirst and water. From a single shower of rain which brings the gaaf tree back to life after a decade to the ever-shifting dunes of gold and thousand-year-old sand palaces, the mysterious poetry of the desert is everywhere on display, if one but has the eye and heart to see it. As the deserts of Nafud, Dahna, and Rub’ al Khali in Arabia both embrace and trap the travellers, the outpouring of the landscape’s longing for rivers recalls a past filled with water. This narrative describes the history, prehistory, archaeology, legends, folklore, and travails of the émigré Asian work force that tames the harsh desert as never before.