Fool's Paradise: : One Man's Search for Vestiges of an Ancient Culture in Modern-Day Saudi Arabia
by Walker, Dale
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Book VG+: mild foxing/offset to endpapers and paste downs, else clean, square, tight, unmarked./DJ VG+: clean, unclipped.
- ISBN 10
- 0747502986
- ISBN 13
- 9780747502982
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
London: Bloomsbury, 1988. first edition. hardcover. Book VG+: mild foxing/offset to endpapers and paste downs, else clean, square, tight, unmarked./DJ VG+: clean, unclipped.. 8vo 242pp. from front flap: "'I walked the lanes of the little souk, sniffing hungrily of the smells that. . . I have longed for: a peculiar, uniquely Arabian essence compounded of sandalwood, sewage, cumin, rosewater and dust.' With Charles Doughty's classic Travels in Arabia Deserta in hand, Dale Walker sets out in search of the 'happy Arabia' of the Romans. Vestiges of this pre-Islamic world are rumoured to exist in Sheba, the country's northernmost corner, an area once ruled by spirited matriarchs who engaged in pagan rituals. [. . .] In this gritty, opinionated and often hilarious narrative, Dale Walker conjures up a fresh and evocative picture of a complex society known to most Westerners only as a land of billionaire sheikhs and black-veiled women." #02410.
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- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2345
- Title
- Fool's Paradise
- Author
- Walker, Dale
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Book VG+: mild foxing/offset to endpapers and paste downs, else clean, square, tight, unmarked.
- Jacket Condition
- DJ VG+: clean, unclipped.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- ISBN 10
- 0747502986
- ISBN 13
- 9780747502982
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- travel, nonfiction, first edition, Saudi Arabia
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Matthew's Books LLC
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About Matthew's Books LLC
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