Scorpion

by Andrew Kaplan

Book Overview

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446344338
• ISBN13: 9780446344333
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

infromative overview of Arab bedouin culture; adventure

The Scorpion was an adventure story about an orphaned American boy raised by a bedouin tribe called the Mutir (shepherds) in mid 20th century Saudi Arabia. Kaplan wove the ancient bedouin culture into a backdrop of political turmoil and change facing the Arab world of today. Kaplan painted a vivid picture of a desert world alive with passion, chicanery and danger trying maintain ties with the past while colliding with the present and culminating with a great camal race to boggle the mind.