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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 - Tayler, Jeffrey
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Marvelously entertaining and frequently harrowing, Glory in a Camel's Eye recounts the American travel writer Jeffrey Tayler's dangerous three-month journey across the Moroccan Sahara in the company of Arab nomads. Glory in a Camel's Eye gives us an intimate, often surprising portrait of Saharan Africa: the cultural conflicts between native Berbers and Arabs, the clashes between devout desert-dwelling nomads and their city-dwelling counterparts. Fluent in Arabic, Tayler assembles an image of modern life very much at odds ...

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Glory in a Camel's Eye: A Perilous Trek Through the Greatest African Desert 2005, Harper Paperbacks, Boston, MA

ISBN-13: 9780618492220

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