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'From the Sudan to Northern New South Wales, Tarab is an epic, mesmerizing tale of high adventure and the search for meaning. Carl Cleves escapes national service in Belgium to live in South Africa at the height of the Apartheid era. So begins the adventures and quests, wanderings and narrow escapes, mishaps and illuminations of a guitar-toting troubadour in his roles as young beat poet, law student, single father, ethnomusicologist, relief worker in India and recording star in Brazil.
'Cleves's page turning memoir is no simple music biography, but rather the story of an artist's quest for Tarab: a place where music and poetry bestow true bliss upon the lucky one. It's by turns philosophical, funny, adventurous and insightful.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Works about this Work
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Review : Tarab : Travels with My Guitar
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Good Reading , March 2014; (p. 55)
— Review of Tarab: Travels with My Guitar 2008 single work autobiography -
Armchair Journey
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 2 August 2008; (p. 5) The Sydney Morning Herald , 2-3 August 2008; (p. 5)
— Review of Tarab: Travels with My Guitar 2008 single work autobiography -
Untitled
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , June vol. 87 no. 9 2008; (p. 54)
— Review of Tarab: Travels with My Guitar 2008 single work autobiography
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Untitled
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , June vol. 87 no. 9 2008; (p. 54)
— Review of Tarab: Travels with My Guitar 2008 single work autobiography -
Armchair Journey
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 2 August 2008; (p. 5) The Sydney Morning Herald , 2-3 August 2008; (p. 5)
— Review of Tarab: Travels with My Guitar 2008 single work autobiography -
Review : Tarab : Travels with My Guitar
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Good Reading , March 2014; (p. 55)
— Review of Tarab: Travels with My Guitar 2008 single work autobiography