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A Dry and Thirsty Land

A Dry and Thirsty Land

Andrews, Eleanor Froiland

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ISBN10: 159713242X
ISBN13: 9781597132428
Publisher: Goose River Press
Published: Jan 5 2022
Pages: 354
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English


A Dry and Thirsty Land is the account of my nearly eleven years of living in Tripoli, Libya, and teaching English at the Oil Companies School. Mr. Robert R. Waldum of Black River Falls, Wisconsin, founded the school in 1958 in a villa in Giorgimpopoli, a suburb west of Tripoli. He started with a handful of teachers and students, moved to an old school which later became a Libyan school, and finally supervised the construction of the campus which opened in 1964. The school consisted of seven single-story rectangular wings and a two-story elementary building. From the air all the buildings combined looked like a giant L. On the ground, the campus would have looked right at home in Southern California. Each wing had five classrooms, all opening to the outdoors and connected by covered hallways. Off by itself stood a large gymnasium and beside it, an athletic field of sand. A parking lot completed the complex. The whole campus was enclosed by a concrete block wall. The building exteriors were neat, clean, and freshly painted in pale blue. The grounds sported one of the most impressive crops of precious grass in Tripoli.

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