Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Letters from Yemen: No matter our age, we are all heroes of our own lives. Travel along with Jean Mondon, a 62-year-young English Midwife

Letters from Yemen: No matter our age, we are all heroes of our own lives. Travel along with Jean Mondon, a 62-year-young English Midwife

Elliott, Suzanne M.
Mondon, Jean

Paperback

Women's Studies

ISBN10: 1983579556
ISBN13: 9781983579554
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Feb 27 2018
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.23 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
No matter our age, we are all heroes of our own lives. Travel along with Jean Mondon, a 62-year-young English Midwife as she recounts her two-year adventure of living and working for an NGO in the Arab Republic of Yemen in the 1980s. In excerpts from her letters and journal entries, Jean recounts stark choices involving life and death, as well as the challenges and joys of living in a small Arab desert village, learning to speak rudimentary Arabic, surviving isolation and being part of a team that opened a Women's Health Clinic in the remote outpost of Abs close to the Saudi Arabian border. She starts her journey feeling like an alien and ends it feeling a real affection and warmth towards the people of Yemen. She describes the austere beauty of Yemen, its culture and people with eloquence and humor. In light of the current tragic events unfolding in Yemen, this book covers a period of time of relative stability in the turbulent history of the region.

Also in

Women's Studies

View All