Is your coffee-table
readable?
Explore the
fabled Forty Days Road by arm-chair.
Want to experience
the Wild West image in the heart of Sudan, the largest country in Africa?
Intrigued
by a woman's role in the Middle East?
Love a great
adventure story?
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a 156 page coffee-table book with over 200 color photos. With the shifting sands and shaky political climate of Sudan and Egypt as a backdrop, Shadows in the Sand is one woman's story of her adventures travelling the Forty Days Road with eight Sudanese men, two hundred camels and one other Western woman. The ancient caravan route dates back to pharonic times and as they slowly traverse the vast Libyan desert, it quickly becomes apparent that as the caravan route begins to slip into obscurity with the modernization of transportation the relationships that develop between the members of the team are timeless and the adventure becomes a microcosm of human existence. |
"Photojournalist Chittock joined
the men who keep this trade alive and produced a multifaceted visual record
of a business where transactions are bound by honor, transport is on the
hoof and nights are passed under desert stars...Her text interweaves reportage,
anthropological detail and disarmingly intimate, often humorous personal
notes."—Saudi Aramco World
"Ms. Chittock first titilates, then
entices, and ultimately commands the viewer to see and feel simultaneously:
A courageous achievement for both photographer and audience."—Nancy
Fuller Hebble Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist
"With visual finesse and exemplary
personal sensitivity, Chittock has set into real-life human context that
most venerable of desert cliche's, the camel. Her eye is always warm, even
in the most trying circumstances, but she is not romantic. Her writing
moves effortlessly from the disinterest of reportage to the intimacy of
the diarist. Through her work, the reader is reminded again of the enduring
power of systematic, compassionate documentary photography and thoughtful
writing to truly enhance understanding of the world we live in."—Dick
Doughty, author of "Gaza: Legacy of Occupation," Kumarian Press, 1995.
Shadows in the Sand is a
156-page coffee-table book (20 x 33 cm, retail price $39.95)
for camel and desert fanatics,
and those with a yearning for wild open spaces.
NOTE: SHADOWS IN THE SAND IS NOW OUT OF PRINT.
THE AUTHOR IS PLANNING TO REPRINT SO TO
RESERVE YOUR COPY CONTACT LORRAINE AT
LC@LorraineChittock.com.
If you need a copy immediately, a few are available at
Baggins Books in the UK, or Abe Books in the US,
though I hear signed copies at the latter are $125.
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