Shifting Sands.Shifting Sands T. L. McCown Leathers Publishing c/o Squire Publishers 4500 College Blvd., Leawood, KS 66211 1585972207 $19.95 1-888-888-7696 www.leatherspublishing.com Written twelve years after the fact, Shifting Sands: Life in Arabia with a Saudi Princess is the memoir memoir History or record composed from personal observation and experience. Closely related to autobiography, a memoir differs chiefly in the degree of emphasis on external events. of T.L. McCown, who shared a deep friendship with a princess in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia (sä  `dē ərā`bēə, sou`–, sô–), officially Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, kingdom (2005 est. pop. for ten years.
The experiences of two women from vastly different backgrounds in a
nation divided between centuries old traditions and the ongoing press of
modern globalization globalizationProcess by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation . Terrorism and pressure from Islamic religious police are ominous shadows over both women's lives, and the dream of bringing more independence in a nation where women are, among other things, legally forbidden to drive, is a difficult one to pursue. The ups and downs ups and downs pl.n. Alternating periods of good and bad fortune or spirits. ups and downs Noun, pl alternating periods of good and bad luck or high and low spirits of their long journey are recounted in this personal and touching recollection of good times shared, and a sober reflection that what ultimately split true friends apart was not the dictates of world or religiou, but rather utterly unforeseen circumstances. A deeply personal viewpoint of the intersection intersection /in·ter·sec·tion/ (-sek´shun) a site at which one structure crosses another. intersection a site at which one structure crosses another. between vastly different cultures and the bridges to be built between both. |
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