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Loading... Arabia: A Journey Through the Labyrinthby Jonathan Raban
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This book was written in the late 1970s, and so the picture of Arabia it paints is very different from the Arab world of today, however it still a very enjoyable read, and does give quite a lot of background on this part of the world, and shows the start of the rapid changes there. (  ) herschelian | Jan 19, 2006 |   no reviews | add a review
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Much of the book's strength is the author's gift for friendships. He brings us into markets and hotels to glamorous parties and seedy rooms, to a sheikh's fortress and the home of a Bedu family. He opens up the world of the rich and the poor and gives us the feel, the smells, the sounds, the very texture of Arabia.
"Beautifully written, poignant, funny, ARABIA is more than travel book, it is a tale of the collision of cultures, observed at an historically crucial time." (Publisher's Source)
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