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Book Synopsis''A fascinating account of life as Bedouin in the late twentieth century'' Mary S. Lovell
''This sparkling memoir is a refreshing antidote and a rare window into the legendary hospitality and mysterious customs of the Bedouin Arabs'' Publishing News
''Where you staying? the Bedouin asked. Why you not stay with me tonight - in my cave?''
Thus begins Marguerite van Geldermalsen''s story of how a New Zealand-born nurse came to be married to Mohammad Abdallah Othman, a Bedouin souvenir-seller from the ancient city of Petra in Jordan. It was 1978 and she and a friend were travelling through the Middle East when Marguerite met the charismatic Mohammad who convinced her that he was the man for her. She lived with him in a two thousand-year-old cave carved into the red rock of a hillside, became the resident nurse for the tribe that inhabited that historical site and learned to live like the Bedouin: cooking over fires, hauling water on donk
