Finding Oasis (click "Add to Cart" to order this documentary as an e-book)
Clare Nonhebel's new downloadable e-book 'Finding Oasis' is available to order right now for £3.50—exclusively through this website. All profits go to the charity Oasis India. If you have any questions or problems when placing orders, or if you prefer to pay by CHEQUE rather than credit/debit card, see Frequently Asked Questions.
What's it all about?
This is a travel diary with a difference. A simple family visit to relatives living very different lifestyles in the Arabian Gulf and in India, turns into a spiritual journey that author Clare Nonhebel has not anticipated. Non-fiction. Published as an e-book in 2008, clarenonhebel.com.
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Book Description
Stress and the search for inner peace are current preoccupations in Western culture, driving people to seek all kinds of remedies, from life coaching and relaxation to New Age spirituality and alternative lifestyles.
Life as an expatriate in the Gulf States, with its oil-rich economy, tax concessions and sunny climate may seem to be the ultimate escapism. But the twin gods of oil and Allah, and the rags-to-riches history of desert-dwelling tribes who became business magnates almost overnight, have created an environment with its own unique conflicts.
Moving on to Mumbai (Bombay), India, to stay with the family of a nephew working among some of the poorest people in the world, Clare finds herself facing culture shock of a different kind.
Spending her days with charity Oasis India’s workers gives her privileged opportunities to meet and speak with slum-dwellers living in enforced close communities – outcasts from each other as well as from mainstream society.
She meets street children rescued from sleeping on railway platforms, spends time with HIV widows and children orphaned by Aids, and shares the heartrending stories of girls sold to slave-traffickers and trapped in prostitution.
Hesitant at first, those who agree to confide their experiences of life open a window on a world of tragedy, tenacity and – beyond all human odds – goodwill and hope for the future.
In conditions of stress that most of us find hard to imagine, it’s these rejected and marginalized people who offer the deepest insights into our common human endeavour to ride out the stresses of life and find a peace that doesn’t depend on getting it right.
‘Finding Oasis’ is 401 pages long (approx 104,000 words) and is available as a .pdf file e-book for only £3.50.
All profits from all e-book sales, including ‘Finding Oasis’ will be donated to the charity Oasis India to help continue the amazing projects visited and described as part of this book.
Reader comments:
From Joy F: This book is an inspiration in many ways - from your own transparent honesty to the people you've met, with their trust in God for survival and happiness.
From Maureen C: The writing is so fascinating that I'm dwelling on the beautifully constructed sentences and flow of such expressive language ...
Finding Oasis - the Abu Dhabi photo gallery
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Finding Oasis - the India photo gallery
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100% of all my e-book sales will be given to Oasis India, however you might like to make an OPTIONAL one-time donation (or a regular subscription donation) of £1.00 minimum, 100% of which will also be given to Oasis India. Thank you, Clare Nonhebel.
