Married To A Bedouin (Inscribed) - Van Geldermalsen, Marguerite

INSCRIPTION FROM MARGUERITE on ffep; Clean, tight, unmarked; a couple of light creases to spine; otherwise very minimal wear; In a world troubled by Arab Extreminism, this sparkling memoir is a refreshing antidote and a rare window into the legendary hospitality and mysterious customs of the Bedouin Arabs. Marguerite van Geldermalsen's story of how, in 1978, a New Zealand-born nurse came to be married to Mohammad Abdallah Othman, a Bedouin souvenir-seller from the ancient city of Petra in Jordan. She mad a home with him in a 2000-year-old cave carved into the red rock of a hillside, became the resident nurse and lived like the Bedouin. Marguerite learned Arabic, converted to Islam and gave birth to three children. Over the years she became as much of a curiosity as the cave-dwellers, with tourists including David Malouf and Frank McCourt encouraging her to tell this, her extraordinary story.
Very Good
Soft cover
Virago
2009
London, UK