The Oasis: Al Ain Memoirs of 'Doctora Latifa'

Gertrude Dyck arrived in the oasis city of Al Ain in 1962, where she witnessed the momentous changes that took place as the local population reaped the benefits of oil development. This book is her personal memoir of a land and a people whom she adopted as her own. Her fascinating photographs portray life among people who knew little of the outside world.