middle-east sojourn

"A travel book ... submarine-infested ocean lanes; East and West meeting in the dirty streets of Cairo; the tragedies and futilities of a Jugo-Slav refugee camp on the Suez sands; a relief worker's Odyssey in Palestine; the gorgeous scenery and dangerous roads of Ethiopia; a trek down the Nile; sight-seeing in Europe that the visas did not authorize; the tribulations of a homesick husband and father on a dirty British freighter---these are described in delightful style, with plenty of humor and irony."--Dust jacket flap.