Download or read book A Time in Arabia written by Doreen Ingrams and published by John Murray Publishers. This book was released on 1970 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doreen Ingrams and her husband were the first Europeans ever to live in the Hadhramaut, an extraordinary, isolated region of southern Arabia. Married to an Arabic-speaking British official, she arrived by boat, and during their ten-year residency travelled throughout the region by camel and donkey. Doreen kept a diary in which she detailed their adventures and described her unequalled access to the domestic quarters, to the women and children, the food, the scents, secrets, jewels, and privileges of this extraordinarily rich traditional society.