The book consists of 60 short stories selected from the three books by C.G. Campbell: Tales from the Arab Tribes (tales from the Lower Euphrates), From Town and Tribe (tales from southern Iraq, Muscat, Oman and Baluchistan) and Told in the Market Place (tales from Palestine, Libya, Oman and Iraq). The summaries which accompanied the publication of the three books highlighted their relationship with The Arabian Nights. This book is a necessary work, like all compilations which contribute to preserving the memory of peoples and their great oral heritage, helping us not to forget, along with the oral literature of the Arab tribes, the magnificent work of the author himself, barely known outside of Great Britain but worthy of further dissemination.

Ana Cristina Herreros, a publisher at Libros de las Malas Compañías, was born in León, and her grandmother would silence stories. So she soon learned to listen to silence and to love the voiceless, of those who tell no tales. So much that, years later, after emigrating to Madrid, she got to work on a doctoral thesis about the literature made by those who cannot read or write. Therefore, by investigating oral traditions, in 1992 she came across the phenomenon of oral storytelling. She then began to tell stories, and for more than 20 years she has never stopped.