Drawn to the desert by his interest in Arabian horses, Carl Raswan's travels with a tribe of Bedouin nomads--7,000 tents, 35,000 people, and 350,000 camels strong--are rich with adventure. He becomes blood brother to a young chieftain, survives raids, droughts, sandstorms, and more. "This is a really GREAT travel book . . . unwearied zest . . . glows through every day Raswan spends in Arabia".--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.
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Text: English, German (translation)
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Carl S. Raswan was a traveler, Arabian enthusiast, writer, and photographer.
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First person story of life with the Bedouin by a Westerner.,
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This review is from: Black Tents of Arabia (My Life Among the Bedouins) (Hungry Mind Find Series) (A Ruminator Find) (Paperback)
The author was a German soldier in WWI who lived with the Bedouin for 22 years after the war. His initial attraction was his love of Arabian horses, but he eventually acquiired the language and customs of the Ruala tribe. Incredibly violent scenes are described in great detail as he rides in raiding parties and fights gun battles with other tribes. One compelling scene describes the sound of bullets smacking into the chest of his best friend. The food scenes are also not for the faint of heart; you may not want to know what they do with the contents of a dead camel's stomach. There is also much in the book that makes one admire the laws of the desert and the nomadic customs that have evolved. This is not a scientific book or an anthropological text, but it should be of extreme interest to any one who seriously studies these people. My interest in oriental rugs caused me to pick it up at a local junk store, and I found it thoroughly engrossing.
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This review is from: Black Tents of Arabia (My Life Among the Bedouins) (Hungry Mind Find Series) (A Ruminator Find) (Paperback)
Highly recommended if you are interested in past Arabic life and culture which is now lost to money, power and oil. The author had some wonderfully authentic experiences that are lost to this world and time.Read " City of Salt" after reading this book!
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Raswan of Arabia,
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This review is from: The Black Tents of Arabia (Hardcover)
The Black Tents of Arabia, by Carl Reinhard Raswan.No contemporary Arabian horse fancier had more first-hand involvement with the Bedouins and high-adventures with desertbred horses and few individuals in history have generated more printed words about them. Blacks Tents is a chronicle of his periodic escapades, (which spanned a total of twenty-six years) migrating, hunting, raiding, feasting, and starving amidst the Ruala tribe. Certainly, no modern writer better captured the essence of the vanishing nomadic Arab culture in such nostalgic and wistful terms. Among the many interesting segments found in the book is an account of the only know meteorite shower to have caused human casualties. First published in 1935, at least four reprints have greatly enhanced the folklore of the breed. Reviewed by Andrew K. Steen, Author and Historian of the Arabian Horse and the Exploration of Arabia
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