- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Penguin UK; New edition edition (Dec 29 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0140147500
- ISBN-13: 978-0140147506
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 259 g
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#1,070,392 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #68 in Books > Arts & Photography > Photography > Travel > Middle East
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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.
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Excellent account, April 17 2011
By Ameer Hamza Adhia - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Last Of The Bedu (Paperback)
I got to this book by chance. But I knew that it would be a gem. I am not faulted here.The last of the Bedu, in true British fashion, asks its readers to consider the demise of the once great race among the Muslims, the Beduin or simply a Bedu. Known to the outside world as camel herders from the desert, this race has been hero worshiped by the likes of Theisger. So no wonder his biographer would do the same. In three years of searching our author goes from one place to another and travels thousands of miles to first ascertain the true meaning and lineage of this great race. And then, secondly, what makes them great. He meets scholars and authors and he lives with several different tribes in varied places. He is wry and is sharp and off course knows Arabic, which makes so much easier his job. In the end he writes this fascinating account. His point is poignant: The real Bedu of British imagination is fast dying, much as it has been predicted in all these last 100 years or so.
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