Among the women of the Sahara [electronic resource] / from the French of Mme. Jean Pommerol ; by Mrs. Arthur Bell (N.D'Anvers); with ninety illustrations, after drawings and photographs by the author.
Pommerol, Jean, Madame.; D'Anvers, N., -1933.
1900
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Title Among the women of the Sahara [electronic resource] / from the French of Mme. Jean Pommerol ; by Mrs. Arthur Bell (N.D'Anvers); with ninety illustrations, after drawings and photographs by the author.
Author Pommerol, Jean, Madame.
Uniform Title Femme chez les sahariennes. English
Publication Details London : Hurst and Blackett, Ltd., 1900 (Kelly's Directories Ltd.)
Language English
Language Note Translation of Une femme chez les sahariennes.
Description 1 online resource ([2], 343, 4 p., [1] leaf of plates) : ill., ports.
Summary "This brightly-written narrative of several months' wandering in the Sahara between El-Aghuat and In-Saleh, forms a really unique revelation of a phase, or rather of several phases, of life hitherto little known to Europeans. Madame Pommerol, with a courage and perseverance worthy of Mrs. Bishop herself, penetrated into homes in dawar and kasr jealously closed as a rule to all outsiders, sometimes succeeding in making friends with the inmates and sometimes having to beat a hasty retreat, so fierce was their hostility. She has given the results of her experience in a series of very vivid word-pictures, supplemented by sketches and photographs taken under great difficulties, for the women of the Sahara look upon the camera as an uncanny sentient being with the power of the evil eye, and moreover they consider it a positive crime to allow their portraits to be taken. In spite of all opposition, however, many evidently good likenesses of typical faces were obtained by the indomitable traveler, and will no doubt add greatly to the value of her book amongst all students of character." -- Translator's note.
Note Publisher's advertising: (4 p.), 2nd count.
Reproduction of the original from the Smith College Library.
Access Note Access limited to authorized
Added Author D'Anvers, N., -1933.
Series Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks.
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1. Who are they?
2. First Impressions of the Arab Race
3. Beauty amongst the Arabs
4. A Difficult Chapter
5. More about El-Aghuat
6. The Women of the Kusur
7. The Wady M'zab and the Seven Holy Cities
8. Among the Mozabite Women
9. Negress Slaves
10. The Quest for Water amongst the Nomad Arabs
11. About Birth and Marriage amongst the Arab Tribes
12. Divorce in the Sahara
13. Wargla : the Pearl of the Oases
14. From Tuggurt to In-Salah
15. Life in the Dawar amongst the Nomad Arab Tribes
16. About the Camels of the Nomad Arab Tribes
17. On the Ideas of the Saharian Women.

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