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Glory in a Camel's Eye: Trekking Through the Moroccan Sahara
by Tayler, Jeffrey
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0618155473
- ISBN 13
- 9780618155477
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 245 pages. Hardcover with a blue and tan pictorial dust jacket, now in mylar. A nice, clean copy. First Edition.
Synopsis
Hailed by Bill Bryson and the New York Times Book Review as an emerging master of travel writing, Tayler penetrates one of the most forbidding regions on Earth. Journeying along routes little altered since the Middle Ages, he uses his linguistic and observational gifts to illuminate a venerable, enigmatic culture of nomads and mystics. Though no stranger to privation (having journeyed across Siberia and up the Congo for his earlier books), Tayler is unprepared for the physical challenges that await him in a Sahara dessicated by eight years of unprecedented drought. He travels across a landscape of nightmares - charred earth, blinding sky, choking gales, and what is fittingly called the Valley of the Dead. 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 ur-Arabs, 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.
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- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 042060
- Title
- Glory in a Camel's Eye: Trekking Through the Moroccan Sahara
- Author
- Tayler, Jeffrey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0618155473
- ISBN 13
- 9780618155477
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston and New York
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- 2003; Jeffrey Tayler; Taylor; Camel; Morocco; Moroccan; Sahara; Africa; Northern; Travel; Geography; Adventure.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Africa; Travel;
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Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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