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Oriental Encounters (Paperback)
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Oriental Encounters (Paperback)
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Loot Price R487
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In 1896 Marmaduke Pickthall arrived in Palestine and spent the next
couple of years in native dress wandering the hinterlands. English
expatriates were alarmed the young man had gone native, but
Marmaduke was having the time of his life.He said When I read The
Arabian Nights I see the daily life of Damascus, Jerusalem, Aleppo,
Cairo, and the other cities as I found it in the early nineties of
last century. What struck me, even in its decay and poverty, was
the joyousness of that life compared with anything that I had seen
in Europe. The people seemed quite independent of our cares of
life, our anxious clutching after wealth, our fear of death. In
Oriental Encounters he records his meetings with a passing parade
of chiefs, bandits and madmen engaged in the joyousness of life.
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