What would "you" do if someone shoots at "you"? This is the
dilemma faced by the author, not once, but several times while
working in the Middle East. Andrew Musgrave focuses on the impact
that a gun culture has on the feelings of a peace-loving teacher
living in Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
As well as peering into daily life in Sana'a and Jeddah, we are
taken on a succession of adventures through impoverished villages
and incredible landscapes into the sparse and threatening
mountainous heart of Queen of Sheba's realm.
Encounters with gunmen, bad-tempered eagles, and homeless cats,
his passion for running, the challenges of escorting vulnerable
school kids across a taxing terrain, while evading kidnappings,
floods, earthquakes, sandstorms and fires - all furnish a yarn full
of surprises, sometimes funny sometimes frightening.
More seriously, he reflects on how issues of women's rights,
censorship, religious and social customs impinge on an expatriate's
life.
General Petraeus, the former US Military Commander, has warned
this region is becoming an Al Qaeda breeding ground of political
unrest, yet the author reveals that despite its reputation for guns
he found it a life-enhancing and richly rewarding place to
dwell.
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