E. M. Hull's<i>Camping in the Sahara</i>: desert romance meets desert reality

Turner, Ellen

doi:10.1080/13645145.2015.1046236

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“…22 The journey across the desert was, according to Ellen Turner, "a journey inwards with a focus on the self." 23 But the desert's emptiness not only lent itself to introspection. It also provided a blank canvas for self-projection.…”

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“Certainly Getting About the World”: New Zealanders’ Experience of the Middle East as a Place During the Second World War

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2021

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New Zealand’s longest and most important campaign of the Second World War was in the Middle East. When New Zealand’s Middle Eastern war is discussed, the focus is usually on combat and the lives of New Zealanders on the battlefield. The limited discussion of life behind the lines is dominated by a picture of racism, drunkenness and debauchery with its focal point in Cairo. This article uses primary sources, including diaries, letters and soldier publications, and focusses on how New Zealanders saw the Middle East as a place, through the lenses of the desert, the city, the Holy Land and the ancient world. An examination of these topics reveals a complex and rich picture of respect and loathing, delight and disgust, wonder and disillusionment. Such a picture shows that the one-dimensional understanding of racism and poor behaviour is an entirely inadequate representation of New Zealanders’ Middle Eastern war.

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“Certainly Getting About the World”: New Zealanders’ Experience of the Middle East as a Place During the Second World War

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2021

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E. M. Hull'sCamping in the Sahara: desert romance meets desert reality

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“Certainly Getting About the World”: New Zealanders’ Experience of the Middle East as a Place During the Second World War

“Certainly Getting About the World”: New Zealanders’ Experience of the Middle East as a Place During the Second World War

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