Unopened Arabia: Souvenirs from the Fahad Years
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“Arbia Unopened: Souvenirs from the Fahad Years”is a collection of short stories written by an expatriate couple taking you into some rarely visited places within the spectacular country of Saudi Arabia. With a previous background in desert exploration, their curiosity and determination led them into the Arabian Nefud Desert, on four independent expeditions, just before satellite navigational systems were available.It was along the edges of this desert where they saw some of the last of the Bedouins of Arabia. Here, they marveled at Neolithic rock art vistas of impressive scale, scattered throughout the numerous and fantastic geological formations of its terrain. Within this technicolor desert, they identified a rare menhir passageway monument and were astonished to find a hidden sanctuary revealing life sized anthropomorphic imagery!In this book, they thrillingly describe the pure magic of these places as they found them, when they hunted for “dimonds”in the dark, lunched with a baboon, came upon plants that could relocate themselves, encountered a large Monitor lizard, saw civet cats and killer guppies and gathered moonstones and peridots inside volcanic craters.Included is an unabashed account of daily life within one of the largest construction camps in the world, located on the King Abdul Aziz International Airport, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, during the First Gulf War: as well as an artistic journey beginning as a teaching assignment which evolved into a singular jewelry business, where elements from the Nefud desert were directly incorporated into the fabrication of some beautiful handmade beads.Somehow it all came together like an alchemical concoction, by ways and means, that could only have transpired in Arabia!