TY - BOOK ID - 78642105 TI - Crossing the kingdom PY - 2016 SN - 0520964519 9780520964518 9780520290280 0520290283 9780520290273 0520290275 PB - Oakland, California DB - UniCat KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. KW - Saudi Arabia KW - Description and travel. KW - 20th century. KW - 21st century. KW - ancient cities. KW - ancient ruins. KW - camel. KW - contemporary. KW - current affairs. KW - desert. KW - foreign country. KW - immigrants. KW - immigration. KW - jeddah. KW - kingdom. KW - law and order. KW - middle east. KW - middle eastern culture. KW - modern world. KW - muslim world. KW - muslim. KW - natural resources. KW - natural world. KW - oil. KW - oppressed women. KW - persian gulf. KW - personal narrative. KW - prisons. KW - protest. KW - red sea. KW - saudi arabia. KW - saudi culture. KW - social science. KW - sufi. KW - travel memoir. KW - travel. KW - traveler. KW - true story. KW - womens rights. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78642105 AB - For many people, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia evokes images of deserts, camels, and oil, along with rich sheikh in white robes, oppressed women in black veils, and terrorists. But when Loring Danforth traveled through the country in 2012, he found a world much more complex and inspiring than he could have ever imagined. With vivid descriptions and moving personal narratives, Danforth takes us across the Kingdom, from the headquarters of Saudi Aramco, the country's national oil company on the Persian Gulf, to the centuries-old city of Jeddah on the Red Sea coast with its population of undocumented immigrants from all over the Muslim world. He presents detailed portraits of a young woman jailed for protesting the ban on women driving, a Sufi scholar encouraging Muslims and Christians to struggle together with love to know God, and an artist citing the Quran and using metal gears and chains to celebrate the diversity of the pilgrims who come to Mecca.Crossing the Kingdom paints a lucid portrait of contemporary Saudi culture and the lives of individuals, who like us all grapple with modernity at the dawn of the twenty-first century. ER -