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Indlæser... Travels in Mauritania (Flamingo) (1990)af Peter Hudson
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. "I was very glad I had stepped out...and had the opportunity to share some little bits of other people's lives",, 23 April 2015 This review is from: Travels in Mauritania (Flamingo) (Paperback) Read as part of 'global challenge', this is a really well-written travel book. First published in 1990, the author describes his exploration of this largely unknown country - from his arrival in the capital, Nouakachott, with the encroaching sand; to the Moorish peoples of the desert. He visits a ruined city, meets fishermen who fish with the dolphins, and becomes aware of the tensions between black and white Mauritanians. As another reviewer observes, there isn't a lot of 'action', but Peter Hudson's descriptions of these remote towns and their inhabitants are vividly depicted. Contains a few line drawings and b/w photos. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Google Books — Indlæser... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)916.61045History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography of and travel in Africa West Africa MauritaniaLC-klassificeringVurderingGennemsnit:
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Written in 1990 about his 1988 trip to Mauritania, a West African country slowly succumbing to desertification from the encroaching Sahara, this is a travelogue in the truest sense. Hudson goes to the country, visiting cities, villages and Bedouin camps, meeting people of all classes, and taking his time to learn about and absorb the uniqueness of each place he visits. He makes friends easily and those friends not only offer him their perspective of their country and fellow men but also direct him on his wide travels. He sees parts of the country not often visited by foreign travelers and while he reports on the people he encounters and what he sees, he works hard to understand everything from a place beyond his own innate prejudices. Mostly he succeeds. The writing is very visual but there are also black and white photographs and some line drawings to reinforce the pictures in the reader's mind's eye. The pacing of the narrative is slow, as if the reader is plodding through the sand with Hudson and sometimes that can feel a bit interminable but his genuine interest in the culture and people help to make up for this. Little actually happens throughout the book but Hudson has drawn a richly complex picture of a little-considered-by-the-West country for those curious to learn about it (at least as it was four decades or so ago). ( )