Glory in a Camel's Eye
A Perilous Trek Through the Greatest African Desert
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A Perilous Trek Through the Greatest African Desert
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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 with our Western assumptions. He observes and reports "with eloquence and an eye for the improbable" (Outside).
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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.
