" ...a work of value and beauty."
— The Middle
East Journal
" ...The Golden Ode captures the elements of
[bedouin] life and illustrates the fragile beauty
the bedouin harvest from their difficult and tenuous
existence. Professor Polk's artistic rendition
and commentary make this comprehensible, and William
Mares's black-and-white photographs illustrate it
in mood and detail -- the sudden daisy after a rain,
a long-deserted campsite, the carcass of a camel,
the great sweep of sand in the formidable wilderness."
— Harper's
Bookletter
" A very rare combination of
good writing, good scholarship, an instinctively
solid literary understanding,and a sympathy of vision
both personal and controlled."
—Professor
Jaroslav Stetkevych, Chicago
" One should not only read but also live with
a book of this sort."
—Books Abroad
" A novel and exciting presentation...sumptuously
done and most pleasing to the reader's aesthetic taste."
—Choice
" The clearest vision of pre-Islamic Arabia
ever achieved by a Western scholar."
—Professor
Mounah Khouri, Berkeley
