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Carregando... Glory in a Camel's Eye: A Perilous Trek Through the Greatest African Desertde Jeffrey Tayler
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. 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. ( ) sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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 Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — Carregando... GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)916.4804History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography of and travel in Africa Morocco; Western Sahara; Canary Islands Western SaharaClassificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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