TY - BOOK ID - 138410254 TI - The long way home PY - 1994 SN - 1862549303 9781862549302 9781862548992 1862548994 1862543259 9781862543256 PB - Kent Town, S.A. Wakefield Press DB - UniCat KW - Voyages and travels. KW - Laube, Lydia, KW - Travel. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138410254 AB - I sat in the windowless and windscreenless front seat of the truck receiving proposals of marriage: only three, I must admit, but then I was only there three quarters of an hour and wasn't looking my best.'Lydia Laube worked as a nurse in Saudi Arabia and described her tribulations and triumphs in the best-selling traveller's yard Behind the Veil. Lydia Laube returned to Saudi Arabia, collected her pay, then decided to take The Long Way Home via Egypt, Sudan, Kenya and India. Our Good Little Woman is as eccentric and entertaining as ever ... blithely she trots along, sunshade held aloft, while ER -