The long way home : 'nobody goes that way' / Lydia Laube.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laube, Lydia, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voyages and travels.

Laube, Lydia, 1948---Travel.

Laube, Lydia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Place of Publication:

Kent Town, S. Aust. : Wakefield Press, 2010, c1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

I sat in the windowless and windscreenless front seat of the truck receiving proposals of marriage: only three, I must admit, but then I was only there three quarters of an hour and wasn't looking my best.'Lydia Laube worked as a nurse in Saudi Arabia and described her tribulations and triumphs in the best-selling traveller's yard Behind the Veil. Lydia Laube returned to Saudi Arabia, collected her pay, then decided to take The Long Way Home via Egypt, Sudan, Kenya and India. Our Good Little Woman is as eccentric and entertaining as ever ... blithely she trots along, sunshade held aloft, while

Contents:

The Long Way Home; Author bio; Map; Title page; Imprint page; Dedication; Contents; PART 1; 1 Boomerang!; 2 Back behind the veil; 3 Perfectly useless; 4 The long way home; 5 Passage to Egypt; PART 2; 6 Ships in the night; 7 Shepheard's delight; 8 My Frouzi friend; 9 Lost, stolen, killed; 10 Star of Egypt; 11 City of the dead; 12 Jewel of the Nile; 13 Nefertiti; PART 3; 14 Wadi Halfa; 15 Achmed's bed; 16 Foul; 17 Two breakfasts to none; 18 Six and only six; 19 Elephant's trunk; 20 Female circumcision; PART 4; 21 Picha la cowboy; 22 The call of the wild; 23 The Great Ship Search

24 Standing in a line and jumping up and downPART 5; 25 Hello sailor!; 26 Pandora; 27 Mother's little helper; 28 The goddess of wealth; 29 Country and eastern; 30 I shall return; Back cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-86254-930-3

OCLC:

689996266