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Summary: True Tale From One Who Holds the Bedouins Dear to Her Heart
Review: I have known Eleanor Nicholson since the late 1970's and purchased her first book "In the Footsteps of the Camel" directly from the publisher when I was in London. Her late daughter Linda (whose life was tragically cut short by a drunken driver) and I had worked together for several years and, through Linda, I met Eleanor and her late husband Russell, who died not long ago. Eleanor and Russ taught their daughters the life of the real people of Saudi Arabia by traveling with them through the desert when on holiday from school, sometims staying with the Bedouins in their tents. They did not want their girls to grow up knowing an elitist lifestyle by staying within the confines of the oil company residential compound.Eleanor is a phenomenal woman with a depth of love and understanding for the people of a country she called home through her daughters' births there, and throughout their school years. She even taught herself how to develop film to avoid sending her film for processing thus subjecting her photography to Government censorship. I am proud to know the Nicholson family as friends these many years, and still miss Linda very deeply.
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Summary: True Tale From One Who Holds the Bedouins Dear to Her Heart
Review: I have known Eleanor Nicholson since the late 1970's and purchased her first book "In the Footsteps of the Camel" directly from the publisher when I was in London. Her late daughter Linda (whose life was tragically cut short by a drunken driver) and I had worked together for several years and, through Linda, I met Eleanor and her late husband Russell, who died not long ago. Eleanor and Russ taught their daughters the life of the real people of Saudi Arabia by traveling with them through the desert when on holiday from school, sometims staying with the Bedouins in their tents. They did not want their girls to grow up knowing an elitist lifestyle by staying within the confines of the oil company residential compound. Eleanor is a phenomenal woman with a depth of love and understanding for the people of a country she called home through her daughters' births there, and throughout their school years. She even taught herself how to develop film to avoid sending her film for processing thus subjecting her photography to Government censorship. I am proud to know the Nicholson family as friends these many years, and still miss Linda very deeply.
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