Alex Schlacher Livres

Most countries have been well-traveled and documented extensively. Saudi Arabia isn't one of them. Shrouded in mystery, the country and its people are relatively unknown to the rest of the world.Alex Schlacher traveled the length and breadth of the Kingdom and was enthusiastically welcomed by people eager to shine a light on their fast-changing and increasingly modern nation.The result is a collection of seventy portraits and stories of people living in a vast country steeped in history and on the cusp of change - from metalworkers to karate instructors, Schlacher beautifully captures the people of Saudi Arabia.

Alex Schlacher has accompanied the Gurkhas on operations in Afghanistan, on exercises in the Brunei jungle and Australia, and has visited all the units in the Brigade as well as retired and medically discharged Gurkhas. She has taken intimate portraits of hundreds of soldiers and heard their stories, many of which are recounted in this book. There have been other books on the Gurkhas, but none has portrayed the individual soldiers and focused about their backgrounds, lives and thoughts.