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The Mistress of Abha (Paperback)
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The Mistress of Abha (Paperback)
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Loot Price R211
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The year is 1930 and the British are in Arabia. Ivor Willoughby, a
young Orientalist, embarks on an ambitious quest to find his
father, an officer abroad with the British Army. In all of Ivor's
life, Robert has returned to England only once, bedraggled and
wild-eyed with tales of As'ir, a land of Sheikhs and white-turbaned
bandits, where he is fighting alongside Captain Lawrence and is
known by the name 'Ullobi'. After that single meeting which left
such a mark on his son, Robert is never heard from again. Ten years
on, Ivor must find out what became of him. So he sets out on the
journey of a lifetime. Travelling to Cairo to join the Locust
Bureau, then circuitously to Abha, Yemen, and along the Red Sea
coast, Ivor searches everywhere for clues about Ullobi, but no one
appears to remember him. Or perhaps they are afraid to admit to it.
Along the way Ivor hears whispers of a woman warrior called Na'ema
who was once a slave. Her story seems tantalisingly connected with
his father's, and Ivor finds himself in the misty heights of Ayinah
looking for an Abyssinian seer who was carried on the same slave
ship as Na'ema in 1914 and might unlock the mystery... In this
dazzling epic, William Newton brings to life Lawrence's Arabia in
fascinating and vivid detail. The Mistress of Abha is a tale of
Empire, of wild daring, of devastating love and an utterly
surprising heroine.
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