Married to a Bedouin

Marguerite van Geldermalsen

“‘ Where you staying?’ the Bedouin asked. ‘Why you not stay with me tonight – in my cave?’ He seemed enthusiastic – and we were looking for adventure.”

Thus begins 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 made a home with him in a two thousand-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 Mc Court encouraging her to tell this, her extraordinary story.”


Kenmerken

ISBN

9781844082209

Uitgever

Virago Press

Uitgave

2013

Oorspronkelijk

2006

Talen Engels
Landen Jordanië

Beschrijving

paperback, 279 blz, in zeer goede staat

9.95

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