joshua caravan isadora crossing

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Joshua and Isadora
Michael/ Wiesel, Elie (FRW) Benanav

Globe Pequot Pr, 2008

Men of Salt: Crossing the Sahara on the Caravan of White Gold

19 reviews
Michael Benanav

The Lyons Press, 2008

A mesmerizing blend of adventure, history and culture
This book lets you vicariously experience an almost 6 week camel caravan across the western Sahara. Michael Benanev's writing is clear and descriptive and you will feel that you are with him during his adventure. He blends some historical, cultural and environmental facts with the sensations of the camel caravans, the desert and the salt mines of western Sahara. Michael read that the camel ...

Joshua and Isadora: A True Tale of Loss and Love in the Holocaust

5 reviews
Michael Benanav

The Lyons Press, 2008

A personal history of love and loss
A chronicle of the author's grandparents who were married in a refugee train en-route from the Nazis, without speaking a language in common. True life fairy tale? Uplifting tale of people recovering from incredible oppression? Really it's so much more than this. This book is part history lesson, as the roots of European Jewry are explained, part travelogue, as the author travels to the places his ...