NEW WIND IN A DRY LAND

by Margaret Laurence ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

Much of the success of this remarkable travel/adventure by a Canadian woman, who accompanied her engineer husband into the interior plains of Somaliland, is due to the high spirits, alert intelligence and ebullient idealism of the author herself. Camping near the plains of Haud, while her husband examined the sites for water holes, she observed an area where it had not rained for one year, where buzzards circled constantly, where people and animals pressed on to water they might not reach. Then she experienced the violence of the returning rain; had a narrow escape from hostile tribesmen; and felt her way through the difficult relationships among the Somalis. The off-camp observations are a delight and wonder-- ruined cities, reflecting changes of empire, and portraits of expatriates, adventurers and colonists. Creative, informative and a lesson in understanding.

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Publisher: Knopf

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1, 1964

Categories: NONFICTION