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    Glory in a Camel's Eye: A Perilous Trek Through the Greatest African Desert
    Glory in a Camel's Eye: A Perilous Trek Through the Greatest African Desert
    Glory in a Camel's Eye: A Perilous Trek Through the Greatest African Desert
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    Glory in a Camel's Eye: A Perilous Trek Through the Greatest African Desert

    By Jeffrey Tayler

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    An “amazing” true account of traveling with Bedouins through a drought-stricken North African landscape (The Boston Globe).
     
    Having journeyed in the past across Siberia and up the Congo, Jeffrey Tayler was well accustomed to adventure and danger. But even this experienced travel writer was unprepared for the physical challenges that awaited him in a Sahara desiccated by eight years of unprecedented drought. In this book, he recounts his travels across a landscape of nightmares—charred earth, blinding sky, choking gales, and what is fittingly called the Valley of the Dead—and manages to describe the trip with “hilarious, horrifying, and wonderfully edifying details” (The Boston Globe).
     
    The last Westerner to attempt this trek left his skeleton in the sand, and even Tayler’s camels wilt in the searing wastes. But his remarkable perseverance, as well as his fluency in classical and Moroccan Arabic, helps him find here a bracing purity. The Saharawi Bedouin among whom he journeys are untouched by the modernity or radicalism that festers elsewhere in the Arab world. By revealing their ingenuity, their wit, their unrivaled hospitality, and more, Tayler upends our notions of what is, and what is not, essentially Arab.
     
    “Beautifully rendered . . . Tayler’s guides provide constant entertainment.” —The Seattle Times
     
    “Fascinating and informative.” —Booklist
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateAug 12, 2013
    ISBN9780544277311
    Glory in a Camel's Eye: A Perilous Trek Through the Greatest African Desert
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    Jeffrey Tayler

    A contributing editor at The Atlantic and the New York Times Notable author of Facing the Congo, Angry Wind, and River of No Reprieve among others, JEFFREY TAYLER has reported on Russia and the former Soviet Union for Foreign Policy, Harper’s Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, National Geographic, and more. He lives in Moscow.

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      Tayler along with two guides takes off across the Sahara Desert. I can add this trip to the list of trips I will never take. Worst of all was the picture Tayler gives of his stop in the home of a Muslim saint; flies covering the food…children with snotty noses…the smell of animal dung coming from the room next door…green meat…men picking their noses while they ate…the intense desert heat….In every village Tayler stopped, locals told him he was the first tourist they’d met. Mmmm…big surprise.

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