Where you staying?â the Bedouin asked. âWhy you not stay with me tonightâin my cave.â He seemed enthusiastic. And we were looking for adventure." Thus begins the story of how Marguerite van Geldermalsenâa New Zealand-born nurseâbecame the wife of Mohammad Abdallah Othman, a Bedouin souvenir-seller of the Manaja tribe, and lived with him and their children in a community of 100 families in the ancient caves of Petra in Jordan. Marguerite and a friend were traveling through the Middle East in 1978 when she met the charismatic Mohammad and decided that he was the man for her. Their home was a lofty 2,000 year-old cave carved into the red rock of a hillside. She became the resident nurse and learned to live like the Bedouinâcooking over fires, hauling water on donkeys, and drinking sweet black teaâand over the years she became as much of a curiosity as the cave-dwellers to tourists. This is her extraordinary story.
Dimensions:152 x 230
Author: Marguerite van Geldermalsen
ISBN: 9781844082193
Format: Paperback
Pages 288
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