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Hawks of the Hadhramaut (Paperback)
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Hawks of the Hadhramaut (Paperback)
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Loot Price R395
Discovery Miles 3 950
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Readers of P.S. Allfree's previous book of Arabian memoirs,
Warlords of Oman, will recall his closing words 'I was going to see
more of Arabia.' In these pages he recounts a year and a half spent
as a political officer among the Bedouin of the south-eastern Rub'
al-Khali, the 'Empty Quarter'. The many fascinating characters in
this ancient land spring happily to life: the wise Judge of the
Saar who chewed tobacco and whose name was 'Son of the jerboa';
Sulayim, the serpent-subtle eminence grise of the desert, whom the
author employs as a secret key to unlock the doors of the Mahra, a
wild and inhospitable race; 'Aunty' Hussein, the motherly Secretary
of State in the Sultanate of Sayun, and many others. Notable
amongst a crowded chronicle of incidents are the Case of the
Hamstringed Camel, which nearly leads to a tribal war; the author's
embroilment with a terrifying tribe of what he calls 'nightmare
Teddy-boys, armed to the eyebrows'; and the final exciting
expedition, which is the climax of this work, the coup de main
which brings the government to the wild and anarchic Mahra.
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