Married To A Bedouin

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  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9781844082193
  • 01 mei 2006
  • 288 pagina's
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Marguerite van Geldermalsen

Marguerite van Geldermalsen, kind van Nederlandse ouders uit respectievelijk Rotterdam en 's Gravesande, groeide op in Nieuw-Zeeland. Na haar studie verpleegkunde ging ze samen met een vriendin op wereldreis, een reis die hen ook naar Jordanië bracht. In 1978 trouwde ze er met Mohammad Abdallah, met wie ze drie kinderen kreeg. Sinds het overlijden van haar man in 2002 woont Marguerite van Geldermalsen afwisselend in Petra en in Nieuw-Zeeland. Op bol.com vind je alle boeken van Marguerite van Geldermalsen, waaronder het nieuwste boek van Marguerite van Geldermalsen.

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' Where you staying? the Bedouin asked. Why you not stay with me tonight - in my cave. He seemed enthusiastic. And we were looking for adventure.' Thus begins Marguerite van Geldermalsen's story of how a New Zealand-born nurse became the wife of Mohammad Abdallah Othman, a Bedouin souvenir-seller of the Manaja(h) tribe, and lived with him - and their children - and a community of about one hundred families - in the ancient caves of Petra in Jordan. It was 1978 and she and a friend were travelling through the Middle East when Marguerite met the charismatic Mohammad and decided that he was the man for her. Their home was a lofty two thousand year old cave carved into the red rock of a hillside. She became the resident nurse and learned to live like the Bedouin: cooking over fires, hauling water on donkeys and drinking sweet black tea, and over the years she became as much of a curiosity as the cave-dwellers with tourists such as Mary Lovell and Frank Mc Court encouraging her to tell this, her extraordinary story.

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Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
01 mei 2006
Aantal pagina's
288
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Hoofdillustrator
Anthony Lewis
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Anthony Lewis
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Little, Brown Book Group

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Digital original
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154 mm
Verpakking hoogte
21 mm
Verpakking lengte
235 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht
400 g

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  • The future looked bright

    The future looked bright

    I meet the author Marguerite van Geldermalsen (Dutch name, makes me like her all the more) in Petra – Jordan - were every now and then she attends to a souvenir shop were among many other things her book is for sale. Every inch an English lady by now - alto she is born in New Zealand – I asked her to sign a copy of her book for my daughters.

    Why, do I want my daughters to marry a Bedouin?
    No, not at all, as a concerned father I would even advise against it strongly.
    I like my daughters to read the book because Marguerite makes her own choice, creates her own life and is happy with it. So I hope my daughters will do, follow their own choices, making their own mistakes, not minding to much about what other people may think or say.
    Like Marguerite, from a nurse in New Zealand, to pogoing before a stage where The Clash preforms in England, to marring a Bedouin in Jordan to a mother of three children. All in a personal, sort of ‘happy go lucky’ way of her own.

    Next to that the book is a very personal account of integrating in another culture, without losing yourself in the process of doing so. Perhaps even becoming closer to yourself.

    Definitively an interesting read in many ways.

    And also a very positive read, I love books how end with; ‘The future looked bright’ and epilogues how finish like this; ‘…, I have become a nomad once again’ as we all are of cours.

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