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New Zealand born nurse Marguerite van Geldermalsen first
visited the lost city Petra with her friend Elizabeth in 1978 on a
sightseeing tour of the ancient world. Already looking forward to
her beach holiday at the end of the trip, little did Maguerite know
she was about to meet the man she would marry, the charismatic
Mohammad Abdallah Othman, a Bedouin craftsman of the Manajah tribe.
A life with Mohammad meant moving into his ancient cave and
learning to love the regular tasks of baking shrak bread on an open
fire and collecting water from the spring. But as Marguerite feels
herself becoming part of the Bedouin community, she is thankful for
the twist in fate that has led her to this contented life.
Marguerite''s light-hearted and guileless observations of the people
she comes to love are as heart-warming as they are valuable,
charting Bedouin traditions now lost to the modern world.
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Marguerite is from New Zealand. In 1978 she met Mohammad
Abdallah in Petra, Jordan, married him and moved into his Nabataean
cave. In 1985 they moved to the new Bedouin settlement, Umm
Sayhoon. She was widowed in 2002. She has three children.
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