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Where the Paved Road Ends : One Woman's Extraordinary Experiences in Yemen /
In 2004, Carolyn Han left her comfortable life and position as a lecturer in English at Hawaii Community College and went to live in one of the most remote and mysterious places in the Middle East-Yemen, known in the West primarily for providing a haven for terrorists affiliated with al Qaeda. The p...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Potomac Books,
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Contents; Author's Note; PART I: A FAR-OFF CORNER OF THE WORLD; 1 The Journey; 2 Places Find Us; 3 Embracing Adventure; 4 Travel Awakens; PART II: ACROSS THE DESERT; 5 Camel Shadows; 6 Crossing the Ramlat as-Sab'atayn; 7 Into the Hadramawt; 8 Walking the Desert; PART III: BACK TO YEMEN; 9 An Unmarked Path; 10 Journey to Marib; 11 Landing Head First; PART IV: LIFE IN MARIB; 12 Awaking in Marib; 13 Following Mohammed; 14 No One Walks in Marib; 15 Ancient Marib; 16 Beginning to Disappear; 17 Sunflower the Cat; 18 Foule, Bread, and Tea; 19 Black Goat-hair Tent; 20 Confronting Conspiracy | |
| 505 | 0 | |a PART V: LEARNING AND LISTENING21 Queen of Sheba's Temple; 22 Ali's Invitation; 23 Eating Arsenic; 24 The Looking Glass; 25 Words of Condolence; 26 Choosing the Veil; 27 A Bedouin Tale; 28 Disappearing in Marib; 29 My Teachers; 30 Rafallah's Tent; 31 Broken Images; PART VI: NEW FRIENDS AND OLD TRADITIONS; 32 Sana'a; 33 Living Traditions; 34 Marib by Taxi; 35 Bedouin, Russians, and The New Yorker; 36 English-Arabic Dictionary; 37 A Restaurant Guide to Marib; 38 Blown by Desert Winds; 39 Princess Shoes in a Fish Restaurant; 40 Classics and Camouflaged Cars; 41 Isolated Lives; 42 Women over Sixty | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 43 Superstitions44 Without Words; 45 Spells Cast; 46 Pre-Islamic Glass Beads; PART VII: THE END OF THE JOURNEY; 47 Christmas; 48 Wine and Cheese; 49 Diplomas; 50 Celebrations; 51 Tarim; 52 Mud Mansions; 53 The Last Supper; 54 Packing Zhara; 55 Graduation Lunch; 56 Gifts of the Desert; Acknowledgments; About the Author | |
| 520 | |a In 2004, Carolyn Han left her comfortable life and position as a lecturer in English at Hawaii Community College and went to live in one of the most remote and mysterious places in the Middle East-Yemen, known in the West primarily for providing a haven for terrorists affiliated with al Qaeda. The previous year, she had sold her gold jewelry to travel with Bedouin by camel from Marib to Shabwa, and the life-changing experience opened the path for her to become the first American English instructor in Yemen's wild tribal area, Marib. Guided by fateful encounters and unfazed by warnings of dange. | ||
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