{"product_id":"married-to-a-bedouin","title":"Married to a Bedouin","description":"\"Where you staying?\" the Bedouin asked. \"Why you not stay with me tonight - in my cave.\" He seemed enthusiastic. And we were looking for adventure.'  Thus begins Marguerite van Geldermalsen's story of how a New Zealand-born nurse became the wife of Mohammad Abdallah Othman, a Bedouin souvenir-seller of the Manaja(h) tribe, and lived with him - and their children - and a community of about one hundred families - in the ancient caves of Petra in Jordan. It was 1978 and she and a friend were travelling through the Middle East when Marguerite met the charismatic Mohammad and decided that he was the man for her. Their home was a lofty two thousand year old cave carved into the red rock of a hillside. She became the resident nurse and learned to live like the Bedouin: cooking over fires, hauling water on donkeys and drinking sweet black tea, and over the years she became as much of a curiosity as the cave-dwellers with tourists such as Mary Lovell and Frank McCourt encouraging her to tell this, her extraordinary story.\nTidy condition, signed by author, dedication on the title page.","brand":"Virago","offers":[{"title":"Good \/ 75acb4aad25","offer_id":48068101374103,"sku":"9781844082193-GD-000130001","price":8.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/9002\/8951\/files\/15635173482844.jpg?v=1785060168","url":"https:\/\/thriftreads.co.nz\/products\/married-to-a-bedouin","provider":"Thrift Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}