Like water in a dry land - Bettina Selby

The book aims to interpret the political situation on both the Arab and Jewish sides of the Israeli border, relating it to the history and religions of the region in an entertaining and accessible way.Bettina Selby is one of Britain's most loved travel writers with a string of books to her credit.. Her mode of transport is always bicycle. In 1985 she rode from London to Jerusalem following the routes of the medieval crusades and the early Christian pilgrims. The subsequent Riding to Jerusalem proved to be the most popular, to date, of her books, and Bettina was besieged by readers asking for more about the Holy Land.Ten years later, at a time of intense political initiative for peace, Bettina returned to Israel, and also spent considerable time `discovering' the Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.With her extraordinary range of contacts, she found herself welcomed by key figures in both the Jewish and Arab world, including an extended interview with King Hussein.