Amazon in Arabic: Backward from Illness a Memoir

In 2010 the author was diagnosed with stage II breast cancer at a time when she was intensely involved with an archaeological project in southern Jordan and had become a serious student of the Arabic language. With the paradoxical juxtaposition of adventure and serious illness as the catalyst C.P.T. Jennings used the long months of illness and treatment to pen this affecting memoir. In it she articulates the inevitability of profound change the cumulative riches of an individuals past and the obligation to build and to renew with whatever tools come to hand.