Where the Paved Road Ends One Woman's Extraordinary Experiences in Yemen / Carolyn Han.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Han, Carolyn, 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women travelers--Yemen (Republic)--Biography.

Women travelers.

Women travelers--United States--Biography.

Yemen (Republic)--Description and travel.

Yemen (Republic).

Han, Carolyn, 1941---Travel--Yemen (Republic).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781597977265

1597977268

OCLC:

810082713