Camels in the Sky
Travels in Arabia
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9780199489428
Publication date:
01/11/2018
Paperback
214 pages
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ISBN:
9780199489428
Publication date:
01/11/2018
Paperback
214 pages
V. Muzafer Ahamed and Translated by P.J. Mathew
Journeying from the green, rain-soaked Kerala into the amphitheatre of the Sun, our traveller-journalist finds that there is no better metaphor than the desert to instil the lessons of life and death, love and hatred, thirst and water. Camels in the Sky describes the history, prehistory, archaeology, legends, folklore, and travails of the émigré Asian work force that tames the harsh desert as never before.
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V. Muzafer Ahamed and Translated by P.J. Mathew
Description
Journeying from the green, rain-soaked Kerala into the amphitheatre of the Sun, our traveller-journalist finds that there is no better metaphor than the desert to instil the lessons of life and death, love and hatred, thirst and water. From a single shower of rain which brings the gaaf tree back to life after a decade to the ever-shifting dunes of gold and thousand-year-old sand palaces, the mysterious poetry of the desert is everywhere on display, if one but has the eye and heart to see it. As the deserts of Nafud, Dahna, and Rub’ al Khali in Arabia both embrace and trap the travellers, the outpouring of the landscape’s longing for rivers recalls a past filled with water. This narrative describes the history, prehistory, archaeology, legends, folklore, and travails of the émigré Asian work force that tames the harsh desert as never before.
About the Author
V. Muzafer Ahamed is the periodicals editor of Madhyamam Daily, Kerala, India, and winner of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award (2010) for travel writing.
Translator
P.J. Mathew is a bilingual journalist with two decades of experience in English journalism and three decades in Malayalam.
V. Muzafer Ahamed and Translated by P.J. Mathew
Table of contents
List of Photographs and Illustrations
Author’s Note
Translator’s Note
Introduction by P.J. Mathew
1. Water War
2. The Bedouin and the Gaaf Tree
3. Burn Marks of Death
4. Cactuses Drink Moonlight
5. Quivering ‘Fossils’
6. Mirage, Mirage
7. Madman of Rub’ al Khali
8. Hoo Cho r’r’r’…
9. Blind Camel, Enter Not This Garden
10. On the Trail of Laila
11. Apple Tree on Sinai Slopes
12. Nails of the Earth
13. The Hulls of History
14. Footprints of Civilizations
15. Thirsty Waterholes
16. Necropolis
17. People of ‘Daratt’ under the Tree
18. Heroines of the Desert
19. Snowfall Turns Camels into Deer
20. Textbooks of History
21. River Emptying into Sand
22. Paradise Scattered
23. Epilogue—Life’s Laboratory
About the Author and the Translator
V. Muzafer Ahamed and Translated by P.J. Mathew
V. Muzafer Ahamed and Translated by P.J. Mathew
Description
Journeying from the green, rain-soaked Kerala into the amphitheatre of the Sun, our traveller-journalist finds that there is no better metaphor than the desert to instil the lessons of life and death, love and hatred, thirst and water. From a single shower of rain which brings the gaaf tree back to life after a decade to the ever-shifting dunes of gold and thousand-year-old sand palaces, the mysterious poetry of the desert is everywhere on display, if one but has the eye and heart to see it. As the deserts of Nafud, Dahna, and Rub’ al Khali in Arabia both embrace and trap the travellers, the outpouring of the landscape’s longing for rivers recalls a past filled with water. This narrative describes the history, prehistory, archaeology, legends, folklore, and travails of the émigré Asian work force that tames the harsh desert as never before.
About the Author
V. Muzafer Ahamed is the periodicals editor of Madhyamam Daily, Kerala, India, and winner of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award (2010) for travel writing.
Translator
P.J. Mathew is a bilingual journalist with two decades of experience in English journalism and three decades in Malayalam.
Table of contents
List of Photographs and Illustrations
Author’s Note
Translator’s Note
Introduction by P.J. Mathew
1. Water War
2. The Bedouin and the Gaaf Tree
3. Burn Marks of Death
4. Cactuses Drink Moonlight
5. Quivering ‘Fossils’
6. Mirage, Mirage
7. Madman of Rub’ al Khali
8. Hoo Cho r’r’r’…
9. Blind Camel, Enter Not This Garden
10. On the Trail of Laila
11. Apple Tree on Sinai Slopes
12. Nails of the Earth
13. The Hulls of History
14. Footprints of Civilizations
15. Thirsty Waterholes
16. Necropolis
17. People of ‘Daratt’ under the Tree
18. Heroines of the Desert
19. Snowfall Turns Camels into Deer
20. Textbooks of History
21. River Emptying into Sand
22. Paradise Scattered
23. Epilogue—Life’s Laboratory
About the Author and the Translator
