Changing Landscape

Two young people are recruited into the news-gathering enterprise in Egypt by an agent for a major European newspaper, called the Tribune. Marty Mintz is a reporter and Amelia Caruthers is a photographer. They make an odyssey across the Middle East experiencing a unique set of adventures, such as riding a camel on an old trade route through Yemen, participating in the lesser pilgrimage (hajj) at Mecca, visiting an early Kibbutz in Tel Aviv, experiencing a raider attack in Thrace, and visiting Teheran in the midst of an oil boom. They meet important people such as the Khedive of Egypt, Sharif Husayn of the Hejaz, the Mayor of Jerusalem, and Ottoman cabinet members in Constantinople. Throughout the trip they learn that adventures are not always easy, that human relations do not always run smoothly, and that they themselves hurt others despite their best efforts not to do so.