About this title: For 3000 years the Bedouin people have conveyed the wisdom of their culture from one generation to the next by means of spoken proverbs. This anthology presents 1,350 of these proverbs, almost none of which have been heard outside the Bedouin world before. Clinton Bailey has collected Bedouin proverbs and documented the life and survival techniques of this hardy people during more than thirty years of fieldwork in the Negev and Sinai deserts. His is the only extensive written record of the rapidly disappearing Bedouin culture. The rich treasury of proverbs is organised around various subjects ...
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New Haven, CT, Yale University Press
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780300098440ISBN:0300098448
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo. Foreword by William W. Hallo. Dust jacket very lightly bumped along spine and edges, otherwise book appears as new. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A. : Yale Univ Pr
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780300098440ISBN:0300098448
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Illustrated. Foreword by WIlliam W. HalloFirst Edition. A Very Fine hardbound copy in like dust jacket, not price-clipped, no remainder mark. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: YALE UNIV PR
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780300098440ISBN:0300098448
Description: New. For 3000 years the Bedouin people have conveyed the wisdom of their culture from one generation to the next by means of spoken proverbs. This anthology presents 1, 350 of these proverbs, almost none of which have been heard outside the Bedouin world b... read more
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