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Visit the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia via Roman à Clef

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Snuggle up for the most informative, least intrusive and safest international travel adventure ever—A roman à clef in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Roman à clef?

A roman à clef (French for “novel with a key”) is a book that tells a real-life story or depicts real people using fictional names, places, and altered events. The “key” is the real-world connection. In my series The Landscape Architect, the key is the geography, the landscape which dominates the story. In addition to the landscape key, I used creative freedom to layer-in Thurberesque character interaction.

Why? …a long story; but here’s the short form.

When I was only an impressionable 17, my father moved us from the US to Belgium. While he was working there, he took us all to London West End on a weekend break. Before he and my mom went to a play, they dropped me off at the Metropole Cinema to watch David Lean’s unforgettable Lawrence of Arabia… and its blazing red Arabian dawn mystical power has ever since driven my life.  That was the beginning of how landscape became the key for all my romans à clef in The Landscape Architect series.

What follows is in the news now—a story about Yenbo Saudi Arabia. Yenbo, Yanbu—don’t trouble yourself with spellings. Transliteration between Arabic and Roman alphabets is always a moving target. The third book in my series, The Landscape Architect, is titled Yenbo Palms. Read it and learn some inside stuff about the Western Region of Saudi Arabia, the Yenbo of Lawrence of Arabia, the Yenbo of Christopher Janus (CJ), the Yenbo of the trans-Arabia oil pipeline in this weekend’s news.

Yenbo Palms QR link to Amazon.

🍀🎉Celebration Time C’mon!🎉🍀

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After decades of American and international landscape architecture and landscape experience, I concluded there was more to landscape architecture than science, horticulture, botany, hardscape and design.

So I started writing landscape stories—a genre nobody has ever heard of. This year I have finished my first series entitled ‘The Landscape Architect’.

The series has six books that trace the career of a landscape architect from university through retirement. In these books, the American protagonist, in his own words, addresses head-on all life’s twists and turns, seeking, as we all do, a healthy balance between personal life and work.

But, that balance can rarely be achieved because the protagonist constantly faces, in the Western European, North African and Middle Eastern places he lives and works, enigmatic challenges from those strange cultures and even stranger landscapes.

🍀!🎉!To celebrate the completion of that series, I offer free to everyone, the e-book version of book three, Yenbo Palms, where the protagonist, suffering from an horrendous family disaster at home in the USA, goes far, far away to work on a huge project in Saudi Arabia. Click on the following safe link to download the FREE Yenbo Palms e-book. https://bit.ly/4qBM3c1

Beautiful, inspiring… until you listen to local people describing it… then it, the landscape, becomes enigmatic—IRL mystifying.

 

Inspired by Landscape? Try this…

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I write landscape stories. Hijaz landscape on the Red Sea in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia. Water or no water?

Inspired by landscape?

You’ll love my landscape stories… Saudi, Red Sea, Lawrence of Arabia… Just published Yenbo Palms. Try it for free at Amazon via this link: https://tinyurl.com/mnmwktmr