Books

In Search Of The Forty Days Road

Michael Asher went to the Sudan as a volunteer English teacher in 1979 and became fascinated by the lives of the desert nomads he found there. Having learned Arabic and mastered the art of camel-riding, he travelled thousands of miles among these nomads in places far beyond any tourist routes, discovering a world lost to the outside since colonial times. Experiencing consta

type: general World66 rating: [rate it] author: Michael Asher subject: Travels With Desert Nomands in the Sudan

A Desert Dies

Michael Asher lived with the nomadic Kababish Arabs of the Sudan for three years, and discovered a different dimension - a tribe that, at the end of the 20th century - was still virtually untouched by the outside world. He was virtually accepted as one of their own.

type: general World66 rating: [rate it] author: Michael Asher

African Calliope:A Journey to the Sudan

type: general World66 rating: [rate it] author: Edward Hoagland isbn: 1558213708 subject: travel

A Woman's Odyssey into Africa:Tracks across a Life

type: general World66 rating: [rate it] author: Hanny Lightfoot-Klein isbn: 156023007X subject: travel

Travels in Nubia

type: general World66 rating: [rate it] author: John Lewis Burckhardt isbn: 0404120091 subject: travel

Low-Fat Dips and Spreads:Over 70 Healthy and Delicious Recipes for Dunking and Slathering

type: general World66 rating: [rate it] author: Jody Weatherstone isbn: 0517704854 subject: culture

Culture and Context in Sudan:The Process of Market Incorporation in DAR Masalit

type: general World66 rating: [rate it] author: Dennis Tully isbn: 088706504X subject: culture

Pyramid:Eyewitness Books

type: general World66 rating: [rate it] author: James Putnam,Peter Hayman (Photographer),Geof.. isbn: 067986170X subject: history

Jacob's Children in the Land of the Mahdi:Jews of the Sudan

type: general World66 rating: [rate it] author: Eli S. Malka isbn: 0815681224 subject: history

To the Happy Few:A Story of Death, Love, and Loss in the Sudan

type: general World66 rating: [rate it] author: Hume Horan isbn: 0965352803 subject: history

Seeking Sanctuary

This book  tells the stories of some converts to Islam who chose to live in Sudan. Many are African -Americans but there are also British and other European converts, male and female.

Most chose to leave advanced western civilisation to live a simpler life in a harsh environment because they felt the moral climate was better  for them and their children.

The stories and experiences of the converts,[ and the author herself who is not a convert,  make interesting reading, and give a different picture to that portrayed by the western media.  more..

World66 rating: [rate it] isbn: 1903070392 author: Hilda Reilly