Re: Carl Raswan

["Frank Mechelhoff" <fmechelh@c-s-k.de>]

"C.M.Newell" wrote:

>         With all due respect to Mr. Raswan, he lived a few months with the Bedu.
> But he had quite the gift for hyperbole.

Therefore my statements starts with an "if"... who in the world cares, what is true
and what is story, if the stories are so beautiful and contains exact descriptions of
the Arabian horse, and people. This books will be in reprint again and again, for
decades. Don't critizize, make it better.

>         I suspect that, insofar as feeding practices, Mr. Raswan was fairly
> accurate, but he also described (and photographed) horses that would arouse
> the interest of the SPCA if found in these parts.

sorry not knowing SPCA, is this the Animal Rights Police? Did you even have a clue
that culture, prosperity, and time totally differs total from presence?

>
>         In fact, a central theme in "Drinkers of the Wind" is that he failed to
> recognize the beauty of the Bedu horses when he saw them in the desert, and
> it was not until he saw them a second time, fattened up after a rest in
> town, that he appreciated them.

...as a young man, on his first trip to Arabia, yes. Not many learned from that story.

regards,

Frank


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