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Review 'The author lucidly and often poetically conveys his remembrances in a series of brief, impressionistic anecdotes that reflect the gossamer quality of youthful recollection ... His commentary is remarkably insightful,and he has a gimlet eye for nuanced portraiture.... thoughtful and elegantly written ... marvelous black-and-white photographs.' -- Kirkus Reviews�'Author Snedeker's wit and insights illuminate the book's easy narrative. His journalistic style faithfully recreates the people,places and events, and keeps the story crisp and moving from one chapter to the next. More than a coming of age story, 3,001Arabian Days is a moving tribute to the intricacies of family, a celebration of Saudi Arabian culture,and a glimpse into a time gone by, but whose shadowy specter you can still almost reach out and touch.' - Mark Kennedy, Saudi Aramco writer/editor, Dhahran'I thoroughly enjoyed this involving and enchanting period book about Arabia and America in (mostly) more innocent times of the '50s and early '60s.This memoir of mid-century life in Saudi Arabia, with all the weighty issues of oil,�social taboos, expatriates, Wahhabism -- plus Little League baseball-- is�documented herein�a disarmingly humane, affectionate, and insightful manner by a son and kid brother who got it all first-hand over the Kingdom's and his own formative years.'� -- Peter Theroux, author of' Sandstorm: Days and Nights in Arabia' (1991) and'Translating L.A.' (1995)'3,001 Arabian Days�has everything a reader wants in a�book, with a congenial narrator to lead you on an adventure�in an exotic locale and in a lost era. While the book will be of special interest to those with a connection to the Arab world or to the oil business or ARAMCO, I had none of those and yet found myself charmed by the author's effortless storyteller's style. It is a book that is both an escape and an education.' -- Dale Dauten, entrepreneur and author of 'The Gifted Boss' and 'The Max Strategy.''Rick Snedeker lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' childhood butwith the distinction of having been transplanted to Saudi Arabia. Hedocuments it here with a remarkable head for detail and a whole lot ofaffection.' -- Paul Sauser, former Dhahran-based editor of Saudi Aramco's�Arabian Sun,�the�company newspaper for employees and their families. Read more From the Back Cover Living in a Saudi Arabian oil 'camp'was the stuff of a growing child's fantasies ...In the fifties, American oilmen labored feverishly toquickly develop Saudi Arabia's nascent oil industry. Many of them broughtfamilies to the desert outpost, a transformative move that flipped theirchildren's all-American life into one embedded in the sand dunes and culture ofArabia. Author Rick Snedeker was one of these children, arriving in 1953 withhis parents and two siblings at Dhahran airfield in the kingdom's desolateEastern Province. In 3,001 Arabian Days,he details the unique growing-up experiences he and other Aramco expatriatesshared in the dusty but comfortable, far-away but safe company town theyaffectionately called 'home.' Read more About the Author Rick Snedeker, a former American journalist and author of 3,001 Arabian Days, spent his years from age three to age 12 in an American oil compound on the Saudi Arabian desert. His father worked for the national oil company, Aramco (now Saudi Aramco). He looks back at those years with great appreciation and affection for the many exotic experiences it provided as well as the oddly normalized American life that Aramco created for the families there. Snedeker, who has never lost his love for�and pursuit of�travel, now lives with his wife in South Dakota. He is at work on his second book. Read more
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