Hooray! You have added the first book to your bookshelf. Check it out now!
[−]
  • Search Digit-count Valid ISBN Invalid ISBN Valid Barcode Invalid Barcode

Lonely Planet Breaking Ranks

Turbulent Travels in the Promised Land (Lonely Planet Journeys (Travel Literature))

By Benjamin Black

(1)

| Paperback | 9781864503616

Like Lonely Planet Breaking Ranks?
Join aNobii to see if your friends read it, and discover similar books!

Sign up for free

Book Description

Ben Black is like any other guy in his twenties: he switches between jobs, he lives on the rough, he travels off the beaten track. He smokes grass, he flirts with politics, he falls in love.

When Ben migrates from Scotland to Israel, his life takes a more exotic turn. He explores the lost citContinue

Ben Black is like any other guy in his twenties: he switches between jobs, he lives on the rough, he travels off the beaten track. He smokes grass, he flirts with politics, he falls in love.

When Ben migrates from Scotland to Israel, his life takes a more exotic turn. He explores the lost city of Petra and a secret, secluded beach in the Sinai Desert. He goes camel racing with the Bedouin and feasts in the hummous parlours of Tel Aviv and Jaffa. Then there is the experience that could occur nowhere else: a suicide bomb blast on his bus route to work.

His life alters irreversibly one day when his military call-up papers arrive and Ben - having moved to Israel in the mid 1990s as the promise of peace seemed so close - is forced to choose between his conscience and his country.

As Ben tries to reconcile his belief in the inevitability of a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with the realities of military service, he brings into sharp, personal focus the meanings of war and peace in the Middle East.

0 Review

Login or Sign Up to write a review
No reviews for this book yet

Book Details

  • Rating:
    (1)
    • 5 stars
    • 4 stars
    • 3 stars
    • 2 stars
    • 1 star
  • English Books
  • Paperback 278 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 1864503610
  • ISBN-13: 9781864503616
  • Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications
  • Pub date: Sep 01, 2001
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
Improve data of this book

Prices Change currency & sellers

ISBN Edition List Sale Seller
9781864503616 Paperback $12.99 -- The Book Depository
Added to Shelf Added to Wish List

Inline Translation Mode

Left click to navigate, right click to translate.

inline translation guide

or close

Inline translation is not ready for this page yet.

Inline translation mode.

Share this page with your friends.

The viewport has not loaded.