Where Are You?

OK, OK so it's Wednesday...Anyway, where are you? This "book challenge" comes from raidergirl3 and it seems like a fun thing to post about once a week. Here is how it works...each Tuesday we can write about "where we are" in whatever book we are reading. Even though it's Wednesday, here is where I am:

In 1929 Baghdad with Freya Stark, subject of the biography "The Passionate Nomad" by Jane Fletcher Geniesse. Freya is a fearless traveler, intent on learning about and seeing as much as possible in the Middle East. She is a self-taught expert in the varied cultures and languages, and loves to take expeditions into the desert to meet with nomadic tribal chieftains. To the officers at the British colonial club, Freya is a pain in the neck. In one instance, she is headed to Sheikh Ajil's encampment and:

"...talked it up to numerous ladies as well as to Stefana Drower, urging them to come along -- no doubt puckishly aware of the implications if they accepted. Most wanted to and scuttled home to ask permission of their husbands. To a man, with the exception of Mr. Drower, who respected his wife's scholarly leanings, the husbands forbade the excursion, and the ladies dropped out. Freya and Stefana went anyway and were deeply moved by the peace and grave dignity of nomadic life."

Next time, I will try to post on Tuesday, in keeping with the theme of this challenge. But for now, this Wednesday, where are you?