Sands of time
Jan 07, 2022
2 minutes
By PD Smith
or Paul Bowles, the Sahara was “one of the last great left on this shrinking planet”. His 1949 novel The Sheltering Sky was inspired by the desert’s “intensely poetic” dunes and in an essay he described its impact on him: “In this wholly mineral landscape
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