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Camels in the Sky is an account of a journalist's travels from a rain-rich, tropical part of the world to a decade long discovery of the harsh and forbidding life in the great Arabian desert, pejoratively called the 'Empty Quarter'.
List of contents
- Author's Note
- Translator's Note
- Introduction
- Camels in the Sky
- 1. Water War
- 2. The Bedouin and the Gaaf Tree
- 3. Burn Marks of Death
- 4. Cactuses Drink Moonlight
- 5. Palpitating 'Fossils'
- 6. Mirage, Mirage
- 7. Madman of Rub'ul Khali
- 8. Hoo Cho r'r'r
- 9. Blind Camel, Enter Not This Garden
- 10. On the Trail of Laila
- 11. Apple Tree on Sinai Slopes
- 12. Forest without Trees
- 13. The Hulls of History
- 14. Footprints of Civilizations
- 15. Thirsty Waterholes
- 16. Necropolis
- 17. People of 'Daratt' Under the Tree
- 18. Heroines of the Desert
- 19. Snowfall Turns Camels into Deers
- 20. Textbooks of History
- 21. River Emptying into Sand
- 22. Paradise Scattered
- 23. Life's Laboratory
- About the Author and Translator
About the author
V. Muzafer Ahamed is currently the Periodicals Editor of the Kerala-based 'Madhyamam' group. He worked in Saudi Arabia for 13 years for the Jeddah-based 'Malayalam News' daily. He won the Kerala Sahitya Academy prize for travel writing in 2010 and is the author of seven books in Malayalam. He hails from Perintalmanna in Malappuram district of Kerala.
2. P. J. Mathew, the translator, is a bilingual journalist with two decades of experience in English journalism in New Delhi and three decades in Malayalam in Kerala. He oversaw the launching of three newspapers from Kerala and headed the journalism training programmes of three institutions and boasts of a host of leading journalists as their guru. He turned to translation after turning 65, and has brought out six volumes in Malayalam and two in English, This book is his third work of translation.
Summary
Camels in the Sky is an account of a journalist's travels from a rain-rich, tropical part of the world to a decade long discovery of the harsh and forbidding life in the great Arabian desert, pejoratively called the 'Empty Quarter'.
