Sandstorms: Days and Nights in Arabia
- ISBN-10
- 0393307972
- ISBN-13
- 9780393307979
- Category
- Arab countries
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Peter Theroux
Description
A journalist who has been stationed in the Middle East for seven years recounts the customs, religion, and food of the Arab culture and recalls the odd assortment of characters he encountered.
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