Because of the Camels A. a. Hoehling ISBN13: 9781258351137

ISBN13: 9781258351137

studies such topics as Hodgson's views on women and his early encounter with Harry Houdini

For example regarding power

The poems have a mythical quality as they speak of the bonds of family and history and stare down the sometimes violent reality of a woman's experience in this life with a justified anger

Her soft gaze melts my cynicism

Because of the Camels A. a. Hoehling ISBN13: 9781258351137All that Elizabeth McDermott knows about camels is the story of the three wise men. But in one dramatic year, camels change her life. In 1856, when the US Army imports camels to Texas, the young Galveston debutante and her family are uprooted to accompany the camels to San Antonio. On the trek, she makes three improbable friends: Alex, affable nephew of the Yankee commander; Hassan, handsome Egyptian camel handler; and Nate, restless grandson of the