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2.0 out of 5 stars
Saudi Arabia visitor guide 1990,
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This review is from: Your Door to Arabia (Paperback)
A small, 108-page paperback tourist's guide to Saudi Arabia (but nothing like a backpacker's guide!). Issued first in 1986 as "Al Baab: Your Door to Arabia", with a second revised edition in 1991 titled just "Your Door to Arabia", written by a guy who apparently couldn't find anything more informative back then. Then it may have been one of the better `introductory' guides before visiting Arabia; still okay today, if you can't find anything else. I read it in about a half-hour. It briefly (just barely) discusses both men's and women's dress attire, and how it varies from region to region. It is the only booklet that I have read that gives a recipe for making the henna dye for women's hands or men's hair and beard. It describes the incense burner (mebkhara) and the sheeshad (water pipe). It presents 2 pages of Arab-English words: days, time, food, greetings, etc. It explains the Arab calendar, khol, 18 pages of recipes, and provides the barest details of Mohammad, Islam theology, and mentions that several Arab cities were founded near water wells (but not a travel guide to any city!). Has some hand-drawings, but no photographs. Has been replaced by many other tourist guides.
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Your Door to Arabia by Jeri Elliott (Paperback - Mar. 1992)
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