Description
Despite the use of numerous means of transport in the modern age and the diversification of income sources, camels are still important for Bedouins in the Arab countries. UAE takes the lead in camel breeding. With active support and encouragement from the late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the author undertook the task of writing this book and for this purpose went on a camel trip in 1973, from Jordan to Qatar through Saudi Arabia accompanied by two friends, Roger Abton and Mark Allan. That experience motivated them to write about camels. Illustrated with many pictures, this book has reproduced considerable information about camels found in Arabic literature and in the pre-Islamic poetry and also in later times. Based on descriptions in Bedouin literature, the author recounts their types and reproduction, their names according to their ages, their diseases and treatments, the names of their limbs and sounds, their types of walk and races, and prices.
