Buy Fat Legs Dont Matter or Morning Comes and also the Night or Denis, the Dugong The Arabian Nature Series.
Fat Legs Don't Matter$20.94Anyone who has enjoyed Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and Marijcke Jongbloed's own Wild About Cats will love these hugely entertaining and finely illustrated stories of encounters with both domestic and wild animals. Dr Jongbloed's decision in 1983 to leave her GP practice in Amsterdam and move to the UAE was not sudden. For years she had dreamed of going to Arabia and, when a job in the desert town of Al Ain presented itself, she jumped at it.
Morning Comes and also the Night$15.11The chance discovery of a cache of letters rekindled Marijcke Jongbloed's lifelong fascination with the circumstances of her birth and her parents' wartime experiences in the Far East. The letters were written in captivity by her father and smuggled through Japanese controls to her mother in a different internment camp in Indonesia. Sixty-five years later, they form the basis of a fascinating and moving insight into survival under the cruel conditions of a distant and frequently ignored part of the Second World War.
Fat Legs Don't Matter$21.25It was Dr Marijcke Jongbloed's young nephew who gave her the title of this very personal memoir of her life and times in the Arabian Gulf, but it was the animals she cared for and loved who proved that 'fat legs don't matter'. Over a period of twenty years, Marijcke edged away from medicine into a deep involvement in the study and preservation of wildlife of the Arabian peninsula. Along the way she fell in love with her mentor only to have her heart broken.
